Recent externally funded awards
October 2023
Includes grants, contracts and subcontracts awarded to KU-Lawrence investigators from external sponsors.
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stevens, Elizabeth | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Examining the Efficacy of Aligning Core Content-Area Reading Instruction and Small Group Reading Intervention for Students with Reading Disabilities (Project ALIGN) | $3,789,119 |
| Naemi Jimenez, Pegah | Social Welfare | Administration For Children & Families | Kansas Bravely Raising & Activating Voices for Equity | $2,500,000 |
| Tanis, Emily | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | State of the States in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities | $2,249,797 |
| Dean, Evan | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | Employment First | $1,995,944 |
| Kurth, Jennifer | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | KU Para to Teacher Project: Pathway to Low Incidence Teacher Endorsement | $1,195,566 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Tennessee Department of Education | Tennessee DLM: 2023 - 2024 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math) + Additional Services | $1,174,272 |
| Hugh, Maria | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Project MounTaiN: Meeting The Need to Prepare Early Interventionists and Special Educators in Data-Based Instruction for Young Children with High Intensity Support Needs | $1,100,000 |
| McCormick, Patrick | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Enabling Spectrally Aware Cognitive RF Sensing | $1,000,000 |
| Walker, James | Geology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: GEO OSE Track 2: Developing CI-enabled collaborative workflows to integrate data for the SZ4D (Subduction Zones in Four Dimensions) community | $850,370 |
| Mazzotti, Valerie | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Effects of CIRCLES on the Provision of Transition Services and Resulting Transition Outcomes for Students with Disabilities | $816,331 |
| Alexander, Perry | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Security Agency | Predicable and Scalable Remote Attestation | $722,322 |
| Colombo, John | Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Psychometrics and Predictive Validity of Infant Learning | $678,966 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Sandia National Laboratories | Joint SAR/GMTI using Agile Waveforms | $427,673 |
| Zipper, Samuel | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas State University | Increasing Water Productivity, Soil Carbon and Sustainability of Integrated Multi-Crop Systems Using Field Scale Research | $400,000 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Systems Technology Research (Str) | Smaller Targeting Radars with Integrated Performance Equivalency STRIPE | $358,831 |
| Naemi Jimenez, Pegah | Social Welfare | University of Texas-Austin | Evaluating THRIVE – A Promising Sexual Health Intervention for Youth in Foster Care and Child Welfare Professionals | $350,000 |
| Cizek, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | Building Early Childhood-Child Welfare Partnerships to Support the Well-Being of Young Children, Families, and Caregivers | $259,588 |
| Saraf, Anita | Molecular Structures Group / Mass Spectometry Laba | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Characterization of Environmental Effects on Mosquito Saliva Composition Using Mass Spectrometry | $250,000 |
| Gardner, Sara | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | SPARK-Accelerator | $247,540 |
| Kong, Kyoungchul | Physics and Astronomy | U.S. Department of Energy | Theoretical High Energy Physics in the Data-Driven Era | $220,011 |
| Symons, John | Philosophy / Institute for Information Sciences | National Security Agency | Vulnerabilities in the Social Attack Surface - How Undermining Norms Affects the Resilience of Critical Social Institutions | $201,852 |
| Long, Haiying | Educational Psychology / Achievement & Assessment Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Supporting the Whole Student: Identifying and Mitigating Barriers to Persistence for Underserved Post-Traditional Engineering Students | $200,041 |
| Alian, Mohammad | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Frameworks: Advancing Computer Hardware and Systems' Research Capability, Reproducibility, and Sustainability with the gem5 Simulator Ecosystem | $200,000 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Idaho State Department of Education | Idaho Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education (ID-AWARE) FY2024 | $154,006 |
| Rowe, Neil | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Public Health | FY24 1st Five Healthy Mental Development Initiative: Evaluation | $151,750 |
| Lovell, Scott | Molecular Biosciences | Seattle Children's Hospital | Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease Renewal | $128,200 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Lifting the Veil: An Open Source Haze Model for Exoplanet Atmospheric Characterization (JWST3207) | $122,959 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Revenue | Open Records for Kansas Appraisers (ORKA) | $114,000 |
| Barton, Jared | Social Welfare | Connecticut Department of Children & Families | Connecticut ROM FY24 | $101,404 |
| Miao, Yinglong | Medicinal Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | Probing Mechanisms of Polycystin-1 Regulation Using Peptide Modulators Designed by Sequence- and Structure-Based Learning | $98,865 |
| Johnson, Rachel | International Affairs Administration | U.S. Department of Education | Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program | $92,150 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | Oklahoma AWARE South | $81,765 |
| Fang, Huazhen | Mechanical Engineering | Pacific Northwest National Laboratories | Nexus of Controls and Communications for Battery Energy Storage Systems | $79,999 |
| Neuenswander, Bradley | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S.D 259, Wichita | Comprehensive Needs Assessment of WPS Strategic Plan | $78,000 |
| Azuma, Mizuki | Molecular Biosciences | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | Identification of compounds that target vulnerabilities of Ewing sarcoma imposed by EWS haploinsufficiency | $72,000 |
| Chow, Connie | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wichita State University | Enhancing DEI through rich, street level data: How user stories can reveal gaps and alignment between stated goals and student experience | $60,000 |
| Lovell, Scott | Molecular Biosciences | Seattle Children's Hospital | Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease Renewal | $52,484 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | OK Aware East | $50,869 |
| Gudino, Omar | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Graduate Research Assistant Services on Nelson Projects | $50,200 |
| Hardesty, Jo | Legal Services for Students | Internal Revenue Service | VITA Grant Project | $48,610 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wichita State University | WSU Southeast Wichita GEAR UP Project Evaluation | $40,000 |
| Hugh, Maria | Special Education / Life Span Institute | University of Washington | Initial Efficacy Trial of a Group-Based Implementation Strategy Designed to Increase Teacher Delivery of Evidence-Based Prevention Programs | $38,839 |
| Dieker, Lisa | Special Education / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Taunton Public Schools | Taunton Co-teaching and Inclusive Practices | $37,000 |
| Lovell, Scott | Molecular Biosciences | Seattle Children's Hospital | Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease Renewal | $34,622 |
| Yi, Richard | Psychology / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Guided Episodic Future Thinking to Increase Physical Activity Adherence and Promote Healthy Brain Aging Among Mid-Life Adults | $31,186 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Assessment of sediment sources in the John Redmond reservoir watershed | $15,000 |
| McCannon, Gerald | Sociology / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Midwest Sociological Society (Mss) | How being both first generation and nontenure track impacts faculty sense of belonging in their departments, their mental wellbeing, and how they might navigate these challenges | $1,000 |
Previous awards
Includes grants, contracts and subcontracts awarded to KU-Lawrence investigators from external sponsors.
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kim, Taejoon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science /Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | NSF Convergence Accelerator Track G: Combating Vulnerability and Unawareness in 5G Network Security | $5,000,000 |
| Stevens, Elizabeth | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Math Words: Vocabulary Support for Students Experiencing Difficulty in Mathematics | $1,994,476 |
| Davidson, Andrew | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science /Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Frameworks: Automated Quality Assurance and Quality Control in the StraboSpot Geologic Information System for Observational Data | $1,886,298 |
| Counts, Jacqueline | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Public Health | Iowa MIECHV Quality Improvement 2024 | $1,443,984 |
| Wang, Zhi | Aerospace Engineering | Department of Defense | GPU and Fast Storage Infrastructure for Massively Parallel Scientific Computing and Reduced Order Modeling | $746,258 |
| Cushing, Christopher | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Optimizing a Sensor-Enabled mHealth Intervention for Adolescents with Suboptimal Asthma Control | $727,641 |
| Smith, Jon | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Geologic Mapping in Kansas for FY23 | $605,817 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environmt | Kansas Inservice Training System (KITS)-Infant and Toddler Expansion Part C | $599,525 |
| Chan, Wai-Lun | Physics and Astronomy | U.S. Department of Energy | Minimizing the Energy Loss in Charge Separation via Spontaneous Exciton Heating | $592,044 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Kansas State Plan for Assistive Technology | $472,693 |
| Tamerler Behar, Candan | Office of Research / Institute for Bioengineering Research | National Institutes of Health | Peptide Enabled Tunable Restorative Interface | $467,008 |
| Orive, Maria | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences / Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | University of Florida | Invasive species as conduits for pathogen spillover between natural and agricultural ecosystems | $456,839 |
| Walker, James | Geology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: GEO OSE Track 2: Building a multiscale community-led ecosystem for crustal geology through the integration of Macrostrat and StraboSpot | $434,415 |
| Rudnick, Gregory | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: RUI: Tracing Galaxy Quenching in the Cosmic Web With Spatially-Resolved Star-Formation Maps | $375,211 |
| Husic, Admin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Can Human-Induced Turbidity Currents Enable Sustainability of Freshwater Reservoirs? | $350,000 |
| Slusky, Joanna | Molecular Biosciences / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Institutes of Health | Plugging & Pulling-in: tuning peptide for ToIC to overcome anitbiotic resistance | $311,242 |
| Rojas Villarreal, Raul | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | University of Georgia | Developing culturally appropriate language assessment tools for low-income African American and Hispanic young children | $266,728 |
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | Exxonmobil Global Services Company | High Resolution Seismic Investigations of Rock Characteristics Associated with Subsidence | $254,003 |
| Besson, David | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: WoU-MMA: Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos with the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland | $181,285 |
| Sereno, Joan | Linguistics | National Science Foundation | Yr. 2: NSF Intergovernmental Personnel Act for Joan Sereno | $177,697 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Revenue | 2023-2025 Kansas On-Line Automated Reporting (KOLAR) project | $122,000 |
| Tran, Dai | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Iowa State University | Evaluation and Selection of 3D Model Viewers for Construction Inspection | $110,000 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Evaluating Long-Term HAB Trends at Cedar Bluff and Clinton Reservoirs Kansas Water Office Contract Number #24-111 | $100,000 |
| Husic, Admin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Brigham Young University | Understanding Reservoir Sedimentation Sources and Economics in the Kansas River Basin for US Army Corps of Engineers Kansas City District | $100,000 |
| Sturm, Belinda | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Evonik | Evaluation of Pre-Oxidation of Evonik Wastewater to Improve Biological Nutrient Removal Performance | $91,068 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Agriculture | DWR Mobile WRIS | $79,794 |
| Hale, Richard | Aerospace Engineering | Wichita State University | Kansas National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program 2023 | $75,729 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | Program Coordination at Parsons State Hospital & Training Center: FY 2024 | $66,100 |
| Tran, Dai | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-TRAN KU 24-4: Implementation of Constructability Reviews for Highway Construction Projects in KDOT: Best Practices and Key Lessons | $65,820 |
| Ginsberg, Richard | Education Administration / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas State University | KBOR State-Wide Structured Literacy Mini-Grant | $52,000 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Exploring the effects of a community-based functional fitness program on frailty among adults aging with mobility disability: A pilot study | $50,000 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Illinois | All Our Kids Network University of Illinois IRIS Proposal (Year 6) | $49,924 |
| Liu, Gaisheng | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Upper Arkansas River Corridor Water Quality Modeling | $35,000 |
| MacGonagle, Elizabeth | History / Hall Center for the Humanities | World Learning Inc . | Race, History, & Health in African and African Diasporic Communities | $34,999 |
| Koliba, Christopher | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Roskilde University | Governing Green Transitions (GOGREEN) | $32,821 |
| Moskovitz, Jackob | Pharmacology & Toxicology | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Moskovitz ADRC DPP 23-24: Oxidation of Apolipoprotein J and Alzheimer's disease | $25,000 |
| Johnson, Jennifer | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | U.S. Department of Homeland Security | State Fire Training Systems Grant FY23 | $20,000 |
| Gudino, Omar | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | te Research Assistant Services on KanAWARE | $15,716 |
| Parsons, Sheena | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Douglas County Heritage Conservation Council | "Here-ing" cultural and natural heritage: Regenerating Indigenous cultural fire in Douglas County | $10,600 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences / Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Society For The Study of Evolution | Graduate Research Excellence Grant (GREG) R.C. Lewontin Early Award | $2,500 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas Upward Bound (KU-UB) | $2,400,725 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Delaware Department of Education | Delaware DLM: 2023-2026 Operational/Testing (ELA, MATH, Sci) + Additional Services | $1,781,087 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas Veterans Upward Bound (KU-VUB): 2023 - 2028 | $1,547,547 |
| Li, Fengjun | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Griffiss Institute | Fortifying the Cyber and Electromagnetic Frontlines: Establishing a Virtual VICEROY Institute in Midwest | $1,499,983 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Missouri Department - Elementary/Secondary Ed | DLM Operational Testing Agreement: Missouri FY 2024 | $1,212,569 |
| Stearns, Leigh | Geology / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | Heising-Simons Foundation | Impact of ice shelf estuaries on ice shelf stability | $599,412 |
| Koch, Lisa | Transportation Research Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Technical Services for the Kanas Rural Transit Assistance Program "RTAP" | $256,245 |
| Colella, Jocelyn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | Society For Conservation Biology | Reconstructing Lahontan cutthroat trout population history to inform future management strategies in Summit Lake, NV | $226,848 |
| Liu, Lin | Mechanical Engineering | Wichita State University | 23-2023EPSCoR-0022, Physics-Informed-AI Enabled Smart Electrospinning of Nanofiber Memberanes Towards In-Space Manufactuing | $185,000 |
| Hoque, Tamzidul | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Wright State University | National Pathway to Success (NPS) | $126,841 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-TRAN 24-5: Evalaution of Portland Limestone Cement-Treated Subgrade Soils and Bases in Kansas | $125,373 |
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute | American Institutes For Research | Evaluation of Transition Supports for Youth with Disabilities | $113,486 |
| Farber, Rachael | Chemistry | American Chemical Society | Selective Ethanol Dehydrogenation over Oxide-Supported Metal Nano-Islands | $110,000 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Federal Communications Commission | Kansas Deaf Blind Equipment Distribution--Assistive Technology for Kansans | $109,293 |
| Royon, Christophe | Physics and Astronomy | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Ultrafast FLASH radiation therapy dosimetry | $100,142 |
| Koliba, Christopher | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | University of Vermont | Enhanced Forecast Design Through Experimental Gaming and Social Impact Assessment of Connected River and Floodplains | $95,807 |
| Darabi Konartakhteh, Masoud | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Development of a database on surface free energy of asphalt binders to evaluate moisture susceptibility of asphalt mixtures used in the state of Kansas | $92,761 |
| Wilson, Blake | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Maintain and expand Kansas-based data services to the NGWMN, 2023 - 2024 | $90,374 |
| Johnson, Jennifer | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | U.S. Department of Homeland Security | AFG Assistance to Firefighters | $87,877 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Geomechanical and mineralogical properties of limestone samples from Kansas - Joint project with KSU | $81,189 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-TRAN KU 24-I: Aggregate Specification to Reduce Dust and Improve Sustainability of Local Rock-surfaced Roads | $79,989 |
| Weinsztok, Sarah | Life Span Institute | University Of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | A prospective behavioral economic analysis of alternative sources of reinforcement for hazardous alcohol use | $76,680 |
| Parsons, Robert | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Development of a Geotechnical Asset Management System for Slopes | $59,832 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Kansas Real-Time Flood Mapping Tool Development: SPARK Efficiency and Modernization | $50,000 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University Of Missouri - Columbia | Raise Awareness of Afterschool OST in the Greater Kansas City Metro Area (Modules) | $48,000 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Functional training for overweight/obese adults with mobility-related disabilities | $46,255 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Post Doctoral Award: Jessamyn Perlmutter | $38,250 |
| Kong, Kyoungchul | Physics and Astronomy | U.S. Department of Energy | Theoretical Particle Physics in the Data-Driven Era | $33,000 |
| Flinders, Jennifer | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Prairie Band | Prairie Band Potawatomie Nation Native Connections Evaluation (Y3) | $31,085 |
| Zhang, Jie | Linguistics | National Science Foundation | Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Representation and Processing of Vowel Contrasts in Brazilian Portuguese and English | $18,354 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Jet Propulsion Lab - California Technology | Follow-up and Validation of TESS Planets with Keck AO Imaging IX - Polanski | $16,500 |
| Cushing, Christopher | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Florida | Personalized Mobile Health Platform to Promote Physical Activity in Adolescents and Young Adults with Cystic Fibrosis | $15,329 |
| Cox, Owen | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department For Children And Families | Head Start Collaboration Office Needs Assessment 2023 | $14,705 |
| Rudnick, Gregory | Physics and Astronomy | Jet Propulsion Lab - California Technology | Revealing Gas Flows in High-Redshift Cluster Galaxies - PID 96/2023B_N201 | $13,750 |
| Orr, Ronald | Spencer Museum of Art | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | Here-ing | $9,500 |
| Daley, Dorothy | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | University of Massachusetts Medical School | JCOIN Coordination and Translation Center | $9,200 |
| Mosconi, Matthew | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | American College of Medical Genetics Genomics | Midwest Autism Patient-Centered Research Consortium (MARC) | $8,723 |
| Moyle, Robert | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | Kansas Department of Wildlife And Parks | Century-scale Changes in Terrestrial Vertebrate Faunas of Eastern Kansas | $8,500 |
| Goebel, Frank | Anthropology | Rust Family Foundation | Early Human Settlement of Southern Patagonia: A Proposal for Rescue Excavations at the Paleoindian Locality of La Gruta 1, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina | $7,971 |
| Kindscher, Kelly | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | U.S. Forest Service | Mapping populations of Osha (Ligusticum porteri) in the Rio Grande National Forest, Colorado | $5,000 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Geosynthetic Institute | Effects of Moisture and Fine Contents on Wicking Geotextile-Soil Interface Strengths | $5,000 |
| Gallagher, Philip | Health, Sport & Exercise Science | American College of Sports Medicine Foundation | 2023-2024 Student Research Grant Award | $1,500 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas Upward Bound (KU-UB) | $2,400,725 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Delaware Department of Education | Delaware DLM: 2023-2026 Operational/Testing (ELA, MATH, Sci) + Additional Services | $1,781,087 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas Veterans Upward Bound (KU-VUB): 2023 - 2028 | $1,547,547 |
| Li, Fengjun | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Griffiss Institute | Fortifying the Cyber and Electromagnetic Frontlines: Establishing a Virtual VICEROY Institute in Midwest | $1,499,983 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Missouri Department - Elementary/Secondary Ed | DLM Operational Testing Agreement: Missouri FY 2024 | $1,212,569 |
| Stearns, Leigh | Geology / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | Heising-Simons Foundation | Impact of ice shelf estuaries on ice shelf stability | $599,412 |
| Koch, Lisa | Transportation Research Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Technical Services for the Kanas Rural Transit Assistance Program "RTAP" | $256,245 |
| Colella, Jocelyn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | Society For Conservation Biology | Reconstructing Lahontan cutthroat trout population history to inform future management strategies in Summit Lake, NV | $226,848 |
| Liu, Lin | Mechanical Engineering | Wichita State University | 23-2023EPSCoR-0022, Physics-Informed-AI Enabled Smart Electrospinning of Nanofiber Memberanes Towards In-Space Manufactuing | $185,000 |
| Hoque, Tamzidul | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Wright State University | National Pathway to Success (NPS) | $126,841 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-TRAN 24-5: Evalaution of Portland Limestone Cement-Treated Subgrade Soils and Bases in Kansas | $125,373 |
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute | American Institutes For Research | Evaluation of Transition Supports for Youth with Disabilities | $113,486 |
| Farber, Rachael | Chemistry | American Chemical Society | Selective Ethanol Dehydrogenation over Oxide-Supported Metal Nano-Islands | $110,000 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Federal Communications Commission | Kansas Deaf Blind Equipment Distribution--Assistive Technology for Kansans | $109,293 |
| Royon, Christophe | Physics and Astronomy | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Ultrafast FLASH radiation therapy dosimetry | $100,142 |
| Koliba, Christopher | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | University of Vermont | Enhanced Forecast Design Through Experimental Gaming and Social Impact Assessment of Connected River and Floodplains | $95,807 |
| Darabi Konartakhteh, Masoud | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Development of a database on surface free energy of asphalt binders to evaluate moisture susceptibility of asphalt mixtures used in the state of Kansas | $92,761 |
| Wilson, Blake | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Maintain and expand Kansas-based data services to the NGWMN, 2023 - 2024 | $90,374 |
| Johnson, Jennifer | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | U.S. Department of Homeland Security | AFG Assistance to Firefighters | $87,877 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Geomechanical and mineralogical properties of limestone samples from Kansas - Joint project with KSU | $81,189 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-TRAN KU 24-I: Aggregate Specification to Reduce Dust and Improve Sustainability of Local Rock-surfaced Roads | $79,989 |
| Weinsztok, Sarah | Life Span Institute | University Of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | A prospective behavioral economic analysis of alternative sources of reinforcement for hazardous alcohol use | $76,680 |
| Parsons, Robert | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Development of a Geotechnical Asset Management System for Slopes | $59,832 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Kansas Real-Time Flood Mapping Tool Development: SPARK Efficiency and Modernization | $50,000 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University Of Missouri - Columbia | Raise Awareness of Afterschool OST in the Greater Kansas City Metro Area (Modules) | $48,000 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Functional training for overweight/obese adults with mobility-related disabilities | $46,255 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Post Doctoral Award: Jessamyn Perlmutter | $38,250 |
| Kong, Kyoungchul | Physics and Astronomy | U.S. Department of Energy | Theoretical Particle Physics in the Data-Driven Era | $33,000 |
| Flinders, Jennifer | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Prairie Band | Prairie Band Potawatomie Nation Native Connections Evaluation (Y3) | $31,085 |
| Zhang, Jie | Linguistics | National Science Foundation | Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Representation and Processing of Vowel Contrasts in Brazilian Portuguese and English | $18,354 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Jet Propulsion Lab - California Technology | Follow-up and Validation of TESS Planets with Keck AO Imaging IX - Polanski | $16,500 |
| Cushing, Christopher | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Florida | Personalized Mobile Health Platform to Promote Physical Activity in Adolescents and Young Adults with Cystic Fibrosis | $15,329 |
| Cox, Owen | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department For Children And Families | Head Start Collaboration Office Needs Assessment 2023 | $14,705 |
| Rudnick, Gregory | Physics and Astronomy | Jet Propulsion Lab - California Technology | Revealing Gas Flows in High-Redshift Cluster Galaxies - PID 96/2023B_N201 | $13,750 |
| Orr, Ronald | Spencer Museum of Art | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | Here-ing | $9,500 |
| Daley, Dorothy | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | University of Massachusetts Medical School | JCOIN Coordination and Translation Center | $9,200 |
| Mosconi, Matthew | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | American College of Medical Genetics Genomics | Midwest Autism Patient-Centered Research Consortium (MARC) | $8,723 |
| Moyle, Robert | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | Kansas Department of Wildlife And Parks | Century-scale Changes in Terrestrial Vertebrate Faunas of Eastern Kansas | $8,500 |
| Goebel, Frank | Anthropology | Rust Family Foundation | Early Human Settlement of Southern Patagonia: A Proposal for Rescue Excavations at the Paleoindian Locality of La Gruta 1, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina | $7,971 |
| Kindscher, Kelly | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | U.S. Forest Service | Mapping populations of Osha (Ligusticum porteri) in the Rio Grande National Forest, Colorado | $5,000 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Geosynthetic Institute | Effects of Moisture and Fine Contents on Wicking Geotextile-Soil Interface Strengths | $5,000 |
| Gallagher, Philip | Health, Sport & Exercise Science | American College of Sports Medicine Foundation | 2023-2024 Student Research Grant Award | $1,500 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Office of Naval Research | Waveform-Diverse RF Capabilities | $2,186,643 |
| Wendel-Hummell, Carrie | Social Welfare | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Workforce Training | $2,009,797 |
| Farrell, Mark | Medicinal Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | Glycoscience Tools and Therapeutics | $1,912,500 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | FY 2024 Oklahoma DLM Operational Testing | $1,562,142 |
| Gaumer Erickson, Amy | Center for Research on Learning / Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Education | SPDG Evaluation | $750,000 |
| Colella, Jocelyn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: PurSUiT: Systematic viral discovery through structured search of host phylogeny | $737,127 |
| Byers, Kaela | Social Welfare | Kansas Department For Children And Families | Family Resource Center Evaluation | $499,370 |
| Dunn, Robert | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Planar Capillary Electrophoresis | $472,804 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | U.S. Department of Energy | Recycling of End-of-Life Solar Panels using Near-critical Fluids and Ozone | $433,333 |
| Ewing, Mark | Aerospace Engineering / Office of Research | Federal Aviation Administration | A68 - Validate Small Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Detect and Avoid (DAA) Well-Clear Requirements | $400,000 |
| Buzhardt Jr, Joseph | Life Span Institute | Univ of North Carolina At Chapel Hill | Effects of Implicit Bias on Children's Early Outcomes | $335,761 |
| Shontz, Suzanne | Engineering Administration / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: CDS&E: An Experimentally Validated, Interactive, Data-enabled Scientific Computing Platform for Cardiac Tissue Ablation Characterization and Monitoring | $283,686 |
| Bigelow, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | National Science Foundation | COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Social-Emotional Analysis of the Language Environment (SEAL): Key Word & Phrase Spotting in Early Childhood Care Settings | $174,362 |
| Tanis, Emily | Life Span Institute | OK Department of Human Services Children & Family | Accessibility of Wearables | $156,213 |
| O'Reilly, Matthew | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Effects of Carbon Sequestration on Corrosion of Reinforced Concrete in Kansas | $151,000 |
| Wagner, Margaret | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Building better bioinoculants: Using experimental evolution to improve the efficacy of a plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria | $120,000 |
| Choi, Jae Young | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE DRPP:Genetics and developmental functions of natural telomere length variation | $114,750 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Standardizing Rigid Inclusions for Transportation Projects | $113,317 |
| Billings, Sharon | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas State University | Collaborative Research: How roots, regolith, rock and climate interact over decades to centuries - the R3-C Frontier | $111,093 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine | $110,056 |
| Paden, John | Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | British Antarctic Survey | Integration of a CRESIS Radar Depth Sounder on a Windracers UAV | $107,882 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Missouri - Columbia | Raise Awareness of Afterschool | $100,000 |
| Kondyli, Alexandra | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-TRAN KU: 24-3: Creating Effective Graphic Changable DMS Messaging | $85,000 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | City of Lawrence | Water quality monitoring in Clinton Lake, Kansas with a water quality buoy | $78,196 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Effectiveness of Automated Pavement Restriping Systems - Phase II | $70,000 |
| Herda, Trent | Health, Sport & Exercise Science / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | A comprehensive and non-invasive assessment of skeletal muscle in adolescents with single ventricle circulation | $61,269 |
| Hefty, Phillip | Molecular Biosciences | Inez Jay Fund | A comprehensive and non-invasive assessment of skeletal muscle in adolescents with single ventricle circulation | $61,269 |
| Xu, Liang | Molecular Biosciences | Inez Jay Fund | Improving Breast Cancer Immunotherapy by Targeting RNA-Binding Protein HuR | $60,000 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Liquid Biopsy using Tumor Specific Extracellular Vesicles for the Early Detection of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer | $52,676 |
| Fehr, Anthony | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Investigating approved therapeutics for their ability to inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 ADPribosylhydrolase: 2022-2023 | $50,000 |
| Murray, Angela | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wend Ii, Inc. | WEND Montessori Research Retreat 2023 | $50,000 |
| Seybold, Erin | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Groundwater Quality Patterns, Trends, and Drivers in GMD2 | $45,000 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Corporation Commission | Kansas On-Line Automated Reporting (KOLAR) project FY2024 | $40,000 |
| Thompson, Jomella | Applied Behavioral Science / Center for Service Learning | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical and Translational Science Institute | $37,680 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | Active Treatment Training Program-Parsons State Hospital-FY24 | $35,000 |
| Beard, Kenneth | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | Leakey Foundation | Early primate evolution in Big Bend National Park, Texas | $30,000 |
| Logan, Randall | School of Professional Studies / KU Edwards Campus | Director of National Intelligence | Collaborative Cybersecurity Research Initiative: Fostering Innovation and Empowering Students in the IC CAE Kansas Consortium | $30,000 |
| Von Esenwein, Silke | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Horizons Mental Health Center | Mental Health Awareness Training Project Evaluation | $24,442 |
| Chao, Haiyang | Aerospace Engineering / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | Wichita State University | High-Fidelity System Identification and Simulation of UAS/UAM Vehicles | $19,272 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Presto Geosystems | Experimental Evaluation of Geocell-stabilized Granular Bases | $15,000 |
| Unruh, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical and Translational Science Instituter | $13,167 |
| Neuenswander, Bradley | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Greenbush Southeast Kansas Education Service | SEKESC School District Strategic Planning (Effort Only) | $12,500 |
| Francis, Lindsay | Transportation Research Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Purchase of Pavement marking Retroflectometer | $10,000 |
| Hileman, Lena | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | The Botanical Society Of America | 2023 Kaplan Dissertation Award in Comparative Morphology: Evolution of bee-exclusionary corolla width differences in Penstemon | $10,000 |
| Seo, Hyunjin | Journalism | Google, Inc. | Digital Skills for Women with Criminal Justice Involvement | $10,000 |
| Zeigler, Zachary | University Press of Kansas | City of Lawrence | University Press of Kansas NEA ARP Subgrant | $10,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day, Stuart | Edwards Campus | Johnson County, Kansas | Johnson County Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds Subrecipient Grant Agreement – Workforce Development | $1,166,670 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | Health Resources & Service Administration | Building Capacity of Early Childhood Providers to Promote Language Learning of Infants and Young Children from Underserved Communities | $900,000 |
| Salandrino, Alessandro | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Air Force Office of Scientific Research | Coherent Space-Time-Varying Electromagnetic Structures | $450,335 |
| Huang, Cheng | Aerospace Engineering | Air Force Office of Scientific Research | Generalizable Data-Driven Modeling Framework for Understanding and Modeling Turbulent Combustion | $450,000 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | National Science Foundation | REU SITE: IDEA Incubator for Porous Materials: Integrating Discovery, Engineering and Art | $399,892 |
| Cizek, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | WellBeing Mapping CBCAP Program | $378,685 |
| Noonan, Patricia | Center for Research on Learning / Life Span Institute | Missouri Department - Elementary/Secondary Ed | Missouri Post-Secondary Success Project/ Social-Emotional Learning for All | $298,421 |
| Gould, Elizabeth | International Short Programs | Institute of International Education | 2023 Eight-Week Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Pre-Academic Training Program | $288,877 |
| Buzhardt Jr, Joseph | Life Span Institute | University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill | Validation of an Outcome Measure of Early Social-Communication for Young Children with ASD | $280,566 |
| Chen, Geng | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Stability, uniqueness and existence for solutions of hyperbolic conservation laws and nonlinear wave equations | $234,974 |
| Billings, Sharon | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Plant community composition, diversity, and precipitation effects on carbon retention and loss in grassland soils | $225,000 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Institute for Sustainable Engineering | Hudson Technologies | Improving Flammability Testing of Refrigerant Mixtures | $209,776 |
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Bioinformatics Core Facility | $153,794 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Trihydro Corporation | Technical Support to prepare remote sensing plan in support of the Russell, Kansas site | $150,000 |
| McCormick, Patrick | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Lockheed Martin | Dual-function Radar/Comms Methods and Robust Calibration Approaches | $150,000 |
| Allgeier, Alan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Pfizer Inc | Evaluating the influence of pharmaceutical feed impurities and solvents on Pd catalyzed flow hydrogenation | $140,000 |
| Rojas Villarreal, Raul | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | University of Georgia | The Role of Fathering in the Language Development of Young, Low-Income African American and Latino Children | $130,464 |
| Brumberg, Jonathan | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | Wispr Ai | Silent Speech Data Collection: Testing and Analysis | $92,611 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Illinois Action For Children | Illinois Community Systems Statewide Supports (CS3) IRIS | $65,000 |
| Wang, Zhuo | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | University of Georgia | The activation of benzoxaborole prodrug AN15368, a clinical candidate for Chagas disease | $61,386 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Summer Scholars yr 10 | $54,540 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | Digital Equity Asset Mapping | $53,230 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Undergraduate Research Office (URO) | $53,025 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Board of Regents | Jobs and Degree Requirements for 2030:An Expanded Analysis of Projections from Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce | $40,690 |
| Rosa-Molinar, Eduardo | Pharmacology & Toxicology | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | P30 CATCH UP Above Accrual Goal Administrative Supplement Request | $38,250 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Kicc-Ks Interdisc Carbonates Consortium | Experimental investigation of High-Pressure, High-Temperature Methane/Co2 Adsorption for Organic-Rich, Tight/Ultra-Tight Carbonates | $36,086 |
| Cushing, Christopher | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | Type 1 Diabetes Rapid Learning Lab | $34,088 |
| Scott, Erik | Russian, Eastern European & Eurasian Studies | Michigan State University | Science, Art and Faith: Architectural Heritage and Islam | $30,000 |
| Brown, Rafe | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | Research Go | Decolonization through Digitization: Enabling Free and Equitable Access to KU's Historically Unique and Globally Significant Reptile and Amphibian Collection with the Emerging Field of Museum Genomics | $29,548 |
| Koch, Lisa | Transportation Research Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | 2023 KDOT Innovative Technologies Summit | $25,196 |
| Davido, David | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Role of ICP0 Dimerization in Herpes Simplex Virus Pathogenesis | $25,000 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | KINBRE Star Trainees yr 10 | $21,210 |
| Murray, Angela | Achievement & Assessment Institute | American Montessori Society | AMS Research Consulting Year 4 | $20,017 |
| Yun, Heechul | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Wichita State University | Anytime Perception and Control for Intelligent and Safe Advanced Air Mobility | $19,272 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | The Impact of Weight Loss on Alzheimers Disease Risk in Adults with Down Syndrome | $17,294 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Campus Coordinator 2023-2024 | $15,150 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forbush, Kelsie | Psychology / Life Span Institute | Department of Defense | Assessment of Eating Disorder and Comorbidity Risk and Resilience in a Nationally Representative Sample of Recent Military Enlistees | $4,230,958 |
| Bigelow, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Kansas Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program | $664,840 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Medicaid Equipment Exchange | $628,420 |
| Tunge, Jon | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | CAS: Enabling synthesis through small molecule liberation | $575,000 |
| Iqbal, Asif | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Agriculture | Kansas Online Water Use Report - CY2023-2025 | $224,200 |
| Allgeier, Alan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Danisco Usa Inc. | Development of Process for Derivatization of Engineered Polysaccharides through Enzymatic Polymerization Through Carboxylic Acids to the Corresponding Engineered Polysaccharide Esters | $206,724 |
| Choi, Jae Young | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | University of Nevada, Las Vegas | The Genetic Basis of Local Adaptation Across an Island Adaptive Radiation | $96,884 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine: Biomedical Engineering Core | $63,863 |
| Rojas Villarreal, Raul | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | Momentous Institute | Collaborative Research Study on Bilingual Language and Self-Regulation Development | $63,615 |
| Girard, Jeffrey | Psychology / Life Span Institute | Massachusetts General Hospital | Multimodal Dynamics of Parent-Child Interactions and Suicide Risk | $59,446 |
| Diener, Alexander | Geography and Atmospheric Science | University of Connecticut | The Middle of Somewhere: Place Attachment and the Geographies of Being | $50,000 |
| Harvey, Susan | Health, Sport & Exercise Science / Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Food is Medicine | $43,294 |
| Sturm, Belinda | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Evonik | Biological Nutrient Removal testing | $42,467 |
| Garstka, Teri | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department For Children And Families | Kansas Early Head Start Data Reporting System (DAISEY) FY24 | $37,425 |
| Jiang, Yunfeng | Mathematics | Research Go | Gromov-Witten Counting Surface Invariants | $30,000 |
| Mahajan, Kirti | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Research Go | Assessment of In-Vehicle Human Machine Interfaces (HMI's) Based on Cognitive-Visual Load | $30,000 |
| Schnitz, Alana | Life Span Institute | Research Go | Development of the Blended Early Literacy, Language, and Social-Emotional Intervention (BELLS) for Preschool Teachers | $30,000 |
| Wang, Jingxin | Medicinal Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Research Go | Development of an Oral Stimulator of Interferon Genes Agonist for Cancer Treatment | $30,000 |
| Teator, Aaron | Chemistry | Research Go | Cyclopolymer Materials Enabled by Spring-Loaded Polymerization | $29,993 |
| Snow, Nancy | Philosophy / Hall Center for the Humanities | Research Go | The Meaning and Importance of "Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself" in Today's World | $29,978 |
| Myers, Suzanne | Life Span Institute | Research Go | Writing with Purpose: Improving Adolescent Writing Achievement through a Focus on Authentic Purpose | $29,299 |
| Sturm, Belinda | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Research Go | Investigating the Role of Microplastics as Carriers of Antibiotic Resistance into the Environment | $29,228 |
| Sabarwal, Tarun | Economics | Research Go | Control and Spread of Information in Decentralized Networks | $27,457 |
| Ovchinnikov, Dmitry | Physics and Astronomy | Research Go | Electric Field Control of Magnetism in Two-Dimensional Quantum Materials | $27,447 |
| Johnson, Christopher | Music | National Endowment For The Arts | Impact of the Quality of Music Programs on the Overall School Climate in High Schools | $27,136 |
| Hileman, Lena | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Research Go | Connecting Genome to Phenome in the Evolution of Trait Complexity | $26,433 |
| Dixon, Dan | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | K-Inbre Institutional Funds | Omics profiling and biological function of plasma-derived extracellular vesicles in colorectal cancer | $25,000 |
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Research Go | Dissecting the Genetic Basis of Longevity in Drosophila | $17,306 |
| Moyle, Robert | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | American Museum of Natural History | Collaborative Research: All Birds: A Time-scaled Avian Tree From Integrated Phylogenomic and Fossil Data | $9,998 |
| Fischer, Kenneth | Mechanical Engineering | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Single Stage Surgical Intervention for Treatment of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury | $4,187 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smith, Adam | Pharmacology & Toxicology | National Institutes of Health | Neurocircuit of Partner-seeking Following Social Loss | $3,213,479 |
| Heggeness, Misty | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Alfred P Sloan Foundation | The Care Board: A Dashboard on, for, and about Care Work and Caregivers in the U.S. | $761,886 |
| Cordell, Stacy | Academic / Professional Programs | Kansas Department of Transportation | KDOT Transportation Safety Conference 2023 - 2027 | $755,266 |
| Alian, Mohammad | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Near-Memory Datacenter Network | $533,095 |
| Douglas, Justin | Molecular Structures Group | National Science Foundation | Helium Recovery Equipment: Acquisition of Helium Recovery and Liquefaction Hardware for the University of Kansas | $500,000 |
| Mosconi, Matthew | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Neurodegenerative Mechanisms of Motor, Executive, and Memory Decline in Females with Fragile X-associated Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome (FXTAS) | $465,831 |
| Liu, Zhipeng | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Exact Formulas of the KPZ Fixed Point and the Directed Landscape | $296,885 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas State University | RESPETAME: Reimagining Educational Systems by Practicing Equity and Translanguaging and Accessing Multiliterate Experiences | $217,263 |
| Soberon, Jorge | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | OPUS: A Computational Theory of Biodiversity | $139,114 |
| Yi, Richard | Psychology / Life Span Institute | Johns Hopkins University | An Examination of the Joint Contributions of Socioeconomic Disadvantage, Genetics, and COVID-19 on the Development of Delay Discounting and Substance Use Across Adolescence | $75,332 |
| Rogers, David | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Lyme Disease Tick Surveillance | $75,063 |
| Roediger, David | American Studies | Huntington Library, Art Collection & Botanical Gardens | Avery Distinguished Fellowship for Academic Year 2023-2024 | $75,000 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | The SPACE Program: a Sub-neptune Planetary Atmosphere Characterization Experiment (17192) | $43,626 |
| Gane, Brian | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Illinois-Chicago | Collaborative Research: Improving Multi-dimensional Assessment and Instruction: Building and Sustaining Elementary Science Teachers' Capacity Through Learning Communities | $40,123 |
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | Burns & Mcdonnell | Ground Truth Testing and Correlation of Seismic Interpretation and Borehole Sampling at Mosaic's Legacy Well Field in Hutchinson, Kansas | $37,006 |
| Du, Heng | Pharmacology & Toxicology / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | University of Kansas Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (KU ADRC) | $28,620 |
| Chen, YiYang | Music | Racial Equity Fund | World Music: A Portrait Series of Modern Composers | $20,000 |
| Duncan, Philip | Linguistics | Racial Equity Fund | Language ideology and the dilution of Black student voices through "proper grammar." | $20,000 |
| Nguyen, Cambrey | Pharmacy Practice | Racial Equity Fund | Promoting health equity through cultural competency: Exploring the patient perspective of community pharmacists delivering care to racially diverse individuals with disabilities: KUEA#37083 | $20,000 |
| Pursel, Sydney | Spencer Museum of Art | Racial Equity Fund | Indigenous Fashion Show & Exhibition: Spencer Museum of Art. | $20,000 |
| Pourladian, Bamdad | Mechanical Engineering | Honeywell | Predictive Model for Silicone Pad Failure and Predicting Uniaxial Compression of Foam Using Computer Vision | $18,399 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brady, Nancy | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | Georgia Institute of Technology | Discovering novel predictors of minimally verbal outcomes in autism through computational modeling | $1,049,667 |
| Counts, Jacqueline | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | Kansas Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five Planning Grant 2 | $1,030,522 |
| Garstka, Teri | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | Kansas Early Childhood Integrated Data System Distinct Count of Children Project | $800,000 |
| Nash, Brooke | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Missouri Department - Elementary/Secondary Ed | Pathways for Instructionally Embedded Assessment (PIE) project | $618,232 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | Porous absorbent-coated geotextile to enhance water drainage from soil | $549,996 |
| Flinders, Jennifer | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Minnesota Department of Education | Minnesota Interagency Community Voice & SenseMaking Project | $361,763 |
| Pu, Bing | Geography and Atmospheric Science | National Science Foundation | Understanding the formation and impacts of warm-season trans-Atlantic African dust extremes | $360,739 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Sun Specialty Products Corporation | Extraction of Rare Earth Elements Using Polyelectrolytes and Polyelectrolyte Complexes | $300,000 |
| Beach, James | Biodiversity Institute | Natural History Museum | Integrating Geoscience Collections into Specify Software | $223,711 |
| Stearns, Leigh | Geology / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: NSF Directorate for Geosciences-Natural Environment Research Council: Understanding surface-to-bed meltwater pathways across the Greenland Ice Sheet using machine-learning and physics-based models | $191,868 |
| Hron, Janine | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Greenbush Southeast Kansas Education Service | Kansas Department of Education Summer Enrichment Program Sunflower Summer 2023 | $176,620 |
| Li, Xianglin | Office of Research / Mechanical Engineering | Wichita State University | Multifunctional Ceramics for Space and Aircraft Applications | $149,999 |
| Colella, Jocelyn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Ranges: Building Capacity to Extend Mammal Specimens from Western North America | $146,497 |
| Schnitz, Alana | Life Span Institute | The Family Conservancy | FY23 Start Young Agreement | $144,839 |
| Wallisch, Anna | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Investigating the Challenging Eating Behaviors of Children with Autism at Mealtime | $119,564 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | Oklahoma Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education South | $113,522 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Project Eagle: Early Head Start | $104,295 |
| Sturm, Belinda | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Water Research Foundation | Engineering the Reactive Surface of Aerobic Granular Systems for Contaminant and Pathogen Removal | $100,000 |
| Rowe, Neil | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environmt | Kansas Universal Home Visiting Expansion Project Evaluation (TO 23039) | $75,000 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Flood Mapping Tool Development: Real-time Flood Mapping for Kansas | $60,000 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | OK Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education East | $55,714 |
| Walker, James | Geology | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Technical Support: Kansas | $55,000 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Urban Action Partner Technology Pilot | $49,655 |
| Hageman, Michael | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | NCI Cancer Center Support Grant - Lead Development and Optimization Core (Hageman) | $41,776 |
| Yi, Richard | Psychology / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Guided Episodic Future Thinking to Increase Physical Activity Adherence and Promote Healthy Brain Aging Among Mid-Life Adults | $40,568 |
| Hardesty, Jo | Legal Services for Students | Internal Revenue Service | Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Grant Project | $39,100 |
| Mills, Elisabeth | Physics and Astronomy | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | National Radio Astronomy Observatory Student Observing Support (SOS) Proposal to support Benjamin Moreau | $31,354 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Project Eagle: Early Head Start | $29,664 |
| Fazzino, Tera | Psychology / Life Span Institute | University of California - San Francisco | NSF Convergence Accelerator Track J: Network Of User-engaged Researchers building Interdisciplinary Scientific infrastructures for Healthy food (NOURISH) | $24,344 |
| Roy, Anuradha | Biomedical Services Labs / High Throughput Screening | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | NCI Cancer Center Support Grant - Lead Development and Optimization Core Core (Roy) | $24,018 |
| Christine, Mary | Office of Faculty Affairs / Institute of Leadership Studies | Kansas State University | Kansas Leadership Center Research Initiative | $20,765 |
| Shen, Zuchao | Life Span Institute | University of Florida | Optimal Design of Experimental Studies Investigating Mediation Effects With Individual-Level Mediators | $18,305 |
| Mosconi, Matthew | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Evaluating sleep disturbances in adolescents and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities | $15,787 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Tensar International Inc. | Experimental Investigation of Interaction between InterAx Geogrid Products and Granular Fill | $15,000 |
| Choi, Jae Young | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Center For Genomics | Recombination Rate Variation and Evolutionary Mechanisms of Adaptive Radiation | $13,909 |
| Brown, Rafe | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | KU Center For Genomics | KUgenoTypes: democratizing access to the University of Kansas' globally and historically significant herpetological collection with museum genomics | $13,063 |
| Koch, Lisa | Transportation Research Center | South Carolina Department of Transportation | South Carolina Department of Transportation Dispatching and Scheduling Training 2023 | $11,193 |
| Lattin, Dana | Life Span Institute | University of North Carolina Charlotte | National Technical Assistance Center on Transition for Students and Youth with Disabilities | $10,000 |
| Scouffas, Anthea | Lied Center | City of Lawrence | KU Indigenous Cultures Festival Artists | $10,000 |
| Talbott, Jennifer | Spencer Museum of Art | City of Lawrence | Gallery Reopening Community Promotion | $10,000 |
| Wang, Jingxin | Medicinal Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Small molecule enhances anti-cancer tumor radiosensitivity via activation of the cGAS-STING pathway | $10,000 |
| Orozco, Robin | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Center For Genomics | Pro-autoimmune allele of PTPN22 influences immune cell functions during virus infection | $9,900 |
| Wallisch, Anna | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Investigating the Challenging Eating Behaviors of Children with Autism at Mealtime | $7,000 |
| Friis, Elizabeth | Mechanical Engineering | Directsync Surgical, Llc | Spinal Fusion Implant with Integrated Fusion Progression Diagnostic Capability | $6,000 |
| Liu, Gaisheng | Kansas Geological Survey | Vista Clara, Inc. | Dynamic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Logging Technologies for High-Resolution Measurement of Hydrogeologic Properties and Soil Response | $5,100 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | A Resource for the Genetic Dissection of Complex Traits | $2,962,239 |
| Mohammadi Dehcheshmehi, Sahar | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Critical Minerals in Pennsylvanian black shales of the U.S. Midcontinent | $975,000 |
| Vakser, Ilya | Computational Biology | National Science Foundation | U.K. Research and Innovation/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council - NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences: Modeling of protein interactions to predict phenotypic effects of genetic mutations | $930,155 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Institute for Sustainable Engineering | Booz, Allen, Hamilton, Inc. | Design of an Ammonia + Ionic Liquid Development Test Rig | $638,638 |
| Hutchison, Justin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Thermal proteome profiling applications for in-situ bioreporting of contaminant degradation in soils | $441,172 |
| Lequesne, Remy | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Electric Power Research Institute, Inc | Advanced Nuclear Reactors: Bond under High Temperature | $395,000 |
| Carta, Judith | Life Span Institute | University of Iowa | Evaluate effectiveness of Waterloo Central School District & Council Bluffs Central School District Exploratory Projects & Statewide Implementation of Specially Designed Instruction, Including Evaluation of the State Identified Measure of R | $374,052 |
| Schoeneich, Christian | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Novartis Pharma Ag | SubQ Application of Biologics - in vivo degradation in the SubQ space as impact factor for reduced bioavailability | $310,000 |
| Timmons, Lisa | Molecular Biosciences | National Science Foundation | EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER): Overcoming transformation and germline expression barriers | $300,000 |
| Swinburne Romine, Russell | Achievement & Assessment Institute | National Center On Deaf Blindness | National Center on Deaf-Blindness (NCDB) | $298,268 |
| Prohira, Steven | Physics and Astronomy / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Windows on the Universe - Multi-Messenger Astrophysics: The Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos: Toward a Transformative Technology for Neutrino | $297,439 |
| Husic, Admin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-4:NSF:Assessing Dynamic Connectivity of Streams and Wetlands across Spatial and Human Gradients with Deep Learning | $259,515 |
| Walker, James | Geology | Texas A & M University College Station | Broadening Community Use and Adoption of StraboSpot | $233,536 |
| Peterson, Andrew | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | University of Oklahoma | Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention Phase 1: International Center for Avian Influenza Pandemic Prediction and Prevention | $219,264 |
| Liming, Kiley | Social Welfare | Oklahoma Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse | Oklahoma Infant Toddler Court Program (OKITCP) | $156,250 |
| Davidson, Andrew | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Security Agency | GenCyber Summer Camp at the University of Kansas -- Inspiring the Next Generation of Cyber Defenders | $145,794 |
| Yi, Richard | Psychology / Life Span Institute | Henry Ford Health System | Improving Decision Making to Prevent Substance Misuse among Adolescents from Traditionally Underserved Communities | $118,981 |
| Teator, Aaron | Chemistry | American Chemical Society | Post-Polymerization Diversification of Polyacrylamides Using Amide Activation | $110,000 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Streambank Evaluation of the Cottonwood and Neosho Rivers above John Redmond Reservoir | $100,000 |
| Hall, Jean | Life Span Institute | The City University of New York | Disability and Health Data Collaborative: Using Data to Promote the Health and Wellness of People with Disabilities | $99,999 |
| Lovell, Scott | Higuchi Biosciences Center | Seattle Children's Hospital | Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease Renewal | $81,652 |
| Wolfe, Michael | Medicinal Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Development of a Simple Animal Model for Familial Alzheimer's Disease | $65,000 |
| Parsons, Robert | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Maxtech Inc. | Lightweight Cellular Concrete Testing for Use as an Approved Substitute for Flowable Fill A Research Proposal | $58,000 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | The Kansas Geological Society | Software Development for Kansas Electronic Data Integration | $50,000 |
| Mollet, Amanda | Educational Leadership & Policy Studies / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Spencer Foundation | Queer Intimacies: A qualitative examination of LGBTQ+ college students' expericence in healther intimate relationships | $49,866 |
| Hardy, Saralyn | Spencer Museum of Art | National Endowment For The Arts | To support research and preliminary work for the 2025 exhibition STREET NIHONGA: The Art of jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani and accompanying publication | $40,000 |
| Miao, Yinglong | Molecular Biosciences | KU Endowment Association | Mechanism of polycystin-1 signal transduction in complex with polycystin-2 | $40,000 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | tiny-k Infant Toddler Assistive Technology Services | $40,000 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Hospital Association | Estimating the Economic Impact of the Health Care Sector in Kansas and Kansas Counties | $39,793 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Terrametrics Agriculture Inc. | U.S. County Level Corn & Soybean Yield Modeling and Brazil & Argentina Soybean Yield Model Development & Implementation | $34,000 |
| Kwon, Gibum | Mechanical Engineering | Kansas Soybean Commission | Sustained Irrigation of Soybean-Farm Utilizing Soybean Nanoclays as Natural Soil Additives | $32,856 |
| Dixon, Dan | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Cancer Center Support Grant - Drug Discovery, Delivery and Experimental Therapeutics Component (D3ET) | $31,539 |
| Neufeld, Kristi | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Cancer Center Support Grant - Cancer Biology Program | $28,949 |
| McCoy, Kelly | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | Kansas Division of Emergency Managment | Hazardous Materials Training to fire and emergency services personnel in the State of Kansas delivered through Kansas Fire & Rescue Training Institute 2022-2023 | $25,000 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Jet Propulsion Lab - California Technology | 2023A Keck/NIRC2: TESS Planet Validation with AO Imaging VIII | $17,700 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Jet Propulsion Lab - California Technology | NASA/Keck: Go Long: Wide Companions in Short-Period Exoplanet Systems | $17,700 |
| Alian, Mohammad | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Conference: Student Travel Grant Request for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software | $15,000 |
| Von Esenwein, Silke | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Van Go Inc | Van Go, Inc. Data Audit and Impact Report | $12,488 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wills, Howard | Educational Psychology / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department Of Education | Class-Wide Functon-Related Intervention Teams Rural Expansion: Gaining More Time to Learn and More Time to Teach in Rural Schools | $14,999,997 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department Of Education | Supporting Effective School Leaders through Professional Learning and Resources for Equity Leadership & Educator Well-Being | $10,112,318 |
| Berkland, Cory | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | The Leona M And Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust | Development of SAgA-T1D as Type 1 Diabetes Antigen Specific Immunotherapy | $3,025,839 |
| Alian, Mohammad | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | University Of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign | Evolvable Computing for Next Generation Distributed Computer Systems | $1,269,661 |
| Lane, Kathleen | Office of Research / Life Span Institute | Arizona State University | Preparing Productive Special Education Scholars to Lead in Evidence-based Practices in Comprehensive, Integrated, Three-tiered (Ci3T) Models of Prevention (Project EPIC) | $1,231,269 |
| Mitchiner, Melinda | Life Span Institute | Oregon Department Of Education | Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) | $1,183,518 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / Transportation Center | Kansas Department Of Transportation | 2023 Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) | $660,000 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Kansas Inservice Training System (KITS)-Infant and Toddler Expansion | $576,758 |
| Greenhoot, Andrea | Center for Teaching Excellence | Howard Hughes Medical Institute | A Comprehensive Shift Toward Achievement-oriented Thinking and Practices | $529,500 |
| Jorgenson, Lindsay | Institute for Policy & Social Research | Haskell Foundation | Large-scale CoPe: Rising Voices, Changing Coasts: The National Indigenous and Earth Sciences Convergence Hub | $483,775 |
| Leonard, Kevin | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | U.S. Army | Experimental and Simulation Investigations into Novel Mechanisms for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction | $449,374 |
| Rowe, Neil | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Kansas Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Coordinated State Evaluation (TO 23031) | $438,853 |
| Fehr, Anthony | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Identifying the targets of virus-induced PARPs during SARS-CoV-2 infection | $424,184 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Office of The Governor of Kansas | Kansas Fiscal Transparency Project (KFTP): Tracking the Impact of Government Funding in Kansas. | $367,658 |
| Flinders, Jennifer | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Our Tomorrows (KDHE Health Equity) (TO 22066) | $315,000 |
| Jorgenson, Lindsay | Institute for Policy & Social Research | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | TEAMSPORT to Community TEAMSPORT: Validating and Adapting a Precision Oncology Reflex Testing Team Intervention to Reduce Rural Disparities in Cancer Care Delivery | $272,664 |
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute | Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute | Kansas Health And Research Participation (K-HARP) Network: Building Capacity for Self-Determination | $250,000 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wisconsin Department of Children & Families | Wisconsin Family Foundations Home Visiting Shared Measurements System | $208,305 |
| Mease, Kristina | Business / Small Business Development Center | Fort Hays State University | University of Kansas Small Business Development Center: 2023 | $200,927 |
| Rowe, Neil | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Public Health | FY23 1st Five Healthy Mental Development Initiative: Evaluation | $182,183 |
| Von Esenwein, Silke | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Crawford County | Certified Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) Planning, Development, and Implementation Grant Project Evaluation --Crawford County | $166,508 |
| Forrest, Marcus | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Kinimmune | Development of a Tumor-retentive Immunostimulant as Adjunct Therapy for Solid Tumor Cancers | $160,182 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Idaho State Department of Education | Idaho Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education (ID-AWARE) | $152,632 |
| Barton, Jared | Social Welfare | TFI Family Services | TFI Family Services ROM 2022-2023 | $130,647 |
| Zipper, Samuel | Kansas Geological Survey | University Of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign | Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes Through a Better Understanding of Decision-support Systems | $116,970 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Sandia National Laboratories | Adaptive Waveform Development For Optimized ReTurns- Enhanced Scene Interpretation and Interference Mitigation(A WD Fort-e S1m) | $100,000 |
| Clifford, Ryan | Design | Iowa State University | North Central Integrated Pest Management Center NCIPMC: A Regional Approach to Pest Management Implementation FY23-FY27 | $100,000 |
| Wu, Judy | Physics and Astronomy | Honeywell | 2D Semiconductor Reliability- KU | $95,000 |
| Blakemore, James | Chemistry / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Chevron Phillips Chemical Company | Redox Behavior of Catalysts for Olefin Oligomerization 4: Joint Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Studies | $94,999 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Newman University | Navigating the University Experience | $80,000 |
| Kindscher, Kelly | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Osage Nation | Osage Ethnobotany Brochures and Educational Materials | $78,071 |
| Fazzino, Tera | Psychology / Life Span Institute | University of California - Davis | Promoting the Purchase to Plate Tools for Food Demand and Diet Quality Research | $75,000 |
| Yi, Richard | Psychology / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Examining the Effects of Gambling Volatility on Drinking Behavior | $73,107.75 |
| Sutley, Elaina | Engineering Administration / Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Florida International University | Hurricane Loss Reduction for Housing in Florida | $67,494 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Expansion of Underground Injection Control (UIC) submittals to Kansas Online Automated Reporting (KOLAR) Website | $60,000 |
| Colella, Jocelyn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | University of New Mexico | PIPP Phase I: Center for Emerging Pathogen Prediction and Integration | $57,797 |
| Bumble, Jennifer | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department For Children And Families | Kansas Navigator Series for Supported Decision-Making | $55,341 |
| Mills, Elisabeth | Physics and Astronomy | Universities Space Research Association (Usra) | A Hot Meal: Mapping the Molecular H2 Feeding the Milk Way's Supermassive Black Hole | $51,700 |
| Flinders, Jennifer | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kickapoo Tribe | Kickapoo TOR Return to Community Program | $50,000 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | The Kansas Geological Society | Software Development for Kansas Electronic Data Integration | $50,000 |
| Schoeneich, Christian | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Abbvie | Activation Energies for Methionine Oxidation in Peptides Liquid Formulations | $50,000 |
| Yang, Xinmai | Mechanical Engineering / Institute for Bioengineering Research | University Of Missouri - Columbia | Midwest Biomedical Accelerator Consortium: MBArC | $44,585.73 |
| Outka, Uma | Law Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Barry University | Just Energy Transitions and Place | $41,272 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Stem Next Opportunity Fund | Million Girls Moonshot | $40,000 |
| Wang, Zijun | Pharmacology & Toxicology | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence Bridging Award Year 2022 | $40,000 |
| Wolfe, Michael | Medicinal Chemistry | KU Endowment Association | P01 Planning Award: Metabolic Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease | $36,848 |
| Hugh, Maria | Special Education / Life Span Institute | University of Minnesota | Initial Efficacy Trial of a Group-Based Implementation Strategy Designed to Increase Teacher Delivery of Evidence-Based Prevention Programs | $35,524 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | Childhood Housing Assistance and Adult Health: Life Course Critical Periods and Cumulative Impact | $34,775 |
| Rowe, Neil | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Kansas MIECHV Community Readiness Assessment (TO 23030) | $33,659 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | CARE Project Referral Network - Integrated Referral and Intake System (IRIS) | $33,546 |
| Forbush, Kelsie | Psychology / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical and Translational Science Institute | $33,503 |
| Mills, Elisabeth | Physics and Astronomy | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | NRAO Student Observing Support (SOS) Proposal to support Benjamin Moreau | $31,354 |
| Dixon, Dan | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | In Vivo Model for Assessment of Intestinal Adenoma-derived Extracellular Vesicles | $25,000 |
| Hansen, Amy | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Water Resources Institute | Unraveling Spatiotemporal Patterns in Watershed Nutrient and Sediment Yields Under Conditions of Ongoing Rapid Crop Conversion Using Direct Sampling and Remote Sensing Observations | $25,000 |
| Husic, Admin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Water Resources Institute | Forecasting Streamflow and Groundwater Depletion with Deep Learning Models to Sustain Kansan Water Resources | $25,000 |
| Moody, Jennifer | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Resources Institute | Herbal Medicine for Sick Ponds: Are Native Aquatic Macrophytes a Cheap and Easy Way to Mitigate Harmful Algal Blooms? | $25,000 |
| Neufeld, Kristi | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas | Identification of Tumorigenic APC mutant Interacting Proteins | $25,000 |
| Wang, Jingxin | Medicinal Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Down-regulation of Interferon Signaling by Splicing Modulators | $25,000 |
| Kerr, Steffany | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Service League | Kansas Children's Service League Thriving Families Parent Cafe Data Analysis | $24,969 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | The Life and Death of Ultra-Hot Jupiter WASP-12b | $24,686 |
| Mills, Elisabeth | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Dissecting the Prototypical Starbursts NGC 253 and M 82 and Their Cool Galactic Winds | $21,183 |
| Dixon, Dan | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Colon Cancer Chemoprevention Through Inhibition of Exportin 1 (XPO1) | $20,810 |
| Unruh, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | SPeCTRE 2.0: The Sunflower Pediatric Clinical Trials Research Extension | $17,607 |
| Saint Onge, Jarron | Sociology / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Center For Practical Bioethics | Building a Circuit of Civic Learning, Dialogue, and Connection to Advance Health Equity: A Deliberative Model, Materials, and Metrics | $16,076 |
| Watts, Judy | Journalism | National Communication Association | Investigating The Effects of Media on Racial Literacy Among Black, Latino, and White Families | $14,850 |
| Schneider, Blair | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas State Historical Society | 2022-2023 Second Fort Zarah Location Geophysical Survey Contract | $13,424 |
| Wilson, Sara | Mechanical Engineering | American Society For Engineering Education | Student Engagement in Engineering: How Has The Pandemic Impacted What We Do? | $5,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bourque, Katherine | Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Examining Adaptive Peer-mediated Interventions for Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Limited or No Spoken Language: A Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial | $2,691,060 |
| Wang, Zijun | Pharmacology & Toxicology | National Institutes of Health | The Role of DNA Breaks and Repairs in Opioid Addiction | $2,295,000 |
| Song, Kwangok | Curriculum & Teaching / Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Promoting English Learners Academic Achievement and Cultivating Educational Equity through Professional Development | $2,290,405 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | State of New Jersey Department of Education | New Jersey Dynamic Learning Maps Operational Testing Agreement 2022 - 2023 | $1,986,438 |
| Kingston, Neal | Educational Psychology / Achievement & Assessment Institute | EnterpriseKC | EnterpriseKC Cybersecurity Center of Excellence Cybersecurity Assessments (Project 1) and Cybersecurity Talent Exchange (Project 2) | $1,891,860 |
| Neufeld, Kristi | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Roles for Adenomatous Polyposis Coli in Colon Injury Prevention and Wound Healing | $1,114,341 |
| Metz, Brent | Latin American & Caribbean Studies / Hall Center for the Humanities | U.S. Department of Education | Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies: Strengthening Communities | $1,055,100 |
| Friis, Elizabeth | Mechanical Engineering | Continuum Educational Technologies Pbc | Smart Tools to Accelerate Research Translation by Uplifting Participants for the Central IDeA State Region (STARTUP Central) | $1,014,493 |
| Arnold, Emily | Aerospace Engineering / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | National Science Foundation | MRI: Development of a Reconfigurable Radar for UAS Applications | $997,861 |
| Walters, James | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Institute for Information Sciences | University of Alabama-Birmingham | Bill: IISAGE - Discovering the Mechanisms and Evolution of Aging Differences Between Females and Males | $989,587 |
| Metz, Brent | Latin American & Caribbean Studies / Hall Center for the Humanities | U.S. Department of Education | Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies: Strengthening Communities | $906,664 |
| Gomez Garcia Alvestegui, Daniel | Center Remote Sensing Integtr Sys / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | NASA Goddard Space Center | Cryospheric Uncrewed-Aerial-System Experiment | $903,730 |
| Tapia Takaki, Jesus Daniel | Physics and Astronomy | U.S. Department of Energy | Studying Nuclear Gluon Dynamics Using Novel Technologies with the A Large Ion Collider Experiment and at the Electron-Ion Collider Sponsor | $750,000 |
| Smith, Jon | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Geologic Mapping in Kansas for FY22 | $599,195 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | KU TRIO Training Program for Absolute Priority 2 (KU TTP-2) | $595,202 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Kansas State Plan for Assistive Technology 2021-2023 | $462,353 |
| Schultz, Jerry | Life Span Institute | University of South Carolina | Understanding Community Obesity Initiatives and Informing Tailored Community Interventions to Reduce Childhood Obesity | $447,809 |
| Hall, Jean | Life Span Institute | Langston University (Public University) | Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers: Equity Center in Employment Domain | $400,000 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Alion Science & Technology | Foundational Research for EW Operations | $380,873 |
| Huerter, Aaron | International Short Programs | Institute of International Education | Hosting Agreement: Six-week English Language Certificate Program for High School English Teachers (“Participants”) from Brazil | $312,620 |
| Wolfe, Michael | Medicinal Chemistry | Brigham & Women's Hospital Research Administration | Leveraging Heterogeneity in Autosomal Dominant AD to Elucidate Pathophysiology and Improve AD Biomarkers | $278,325 |
| Hefty, Phillip | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Washington | Functional Genomics for Chlamydia | $275,468 |
| Thompson, Jomella | Applied Behavioral Science / Center for Service Learning | USD 500, Kansas City | ThrYve Collaborative for Out-of-School Time Supports in KCK | $135,000 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Evaluating Long-Term HAB Trends at Wilson and Kirwin Reservoirs Kansas Water Office Contract Number 23-110 | $100,000 |
| Kaplinger, Brian | Aerospace Engineering | Wichita State University | Experimental Measurement of Granular Flow Free Colling in Microgravity | $94,512 |
| Darwin, David | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | OK Department of Transportation | Effectiveness of Magnesium-Alumino-Liquid Phosphate-Based Concrete as a Repair Material | $92,699 |
| Mandel, Rolfe | Kansas Geological Survey | History Nebraska | A Statewide Geographic Information System (GIS) as a Predictive Tool for Locating Deeply Buried Archeological Deposits in Nebraska: (PHASE III-The Sandhills Region) | $88,515 |
| Wu, Judy | Physics and Astronomy | Zenoleap LLC | Energy Efficient Superconducting Neuromorphic Computing Circuits | $85,333 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department for Aging And Disability Service | Southeast Kansas Respite Care Services (SEKRS) | $66,100 |
| Bagwell-Gray, Meredith | Social Welfare | Arizona State University | Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence in the Context of COVID-19 | $59,525 |
| Husic, Admin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Monitoring and Modeling Hillsdale Lake Under Changing Land Use and Climate Drivers to Assess Tipping Point of Hypereutrophic Lake Conditions - TO 22088 | $46,000 |
| Liu, Lin | Mechanical Engineering | Kansas Soybean Commission | Performance-enabling Soybean-derived Materials for Next-generation Solid State Lithium-sulfur Batteries | $44,982 |
| Berkland, Cory | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | Columbia University | In Vivo Analysis of Human Islet Graft Infiltration and Its Immunomodulation by Antigen-specific Therapy | $41,924 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Illinois | All Our Kids Network University of Illinois IRIS Proposal (Year 5) | $40,001 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wichita State University | WSU Southeast Wichita GEAR UP Project Evaluation | $40,000 |
| Desaire, Heather | Chemistry | Duke University | Duke Center for HIV Structural Biology: Protein Analytics Support to Characterize Env Proteins | $38,250 |
| Colaco Morais, Ana | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Kansas Soybean Commission | Production of Soybean Protein Concentrates with Enhanced Nutrient Profile for Pet Nutrition | $35,820 |
| Johnson, Rachel | International Affairs Administration / IP International Programs | U.S. Department of Education | Fulbright Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad | $35,225 |
| Forrest, Marcus | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Personalized T Cell Therapy for Mantle Cell Lymphoma | $35,000 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department for Aging And Disability Service | Active Treatment Training Program-Parsons State Hospital | $35,000 |
| Clifford, Ryan | Design /School of Architecture & Design | Iowa State University | Crop Protection and Pest Management Competitive Grants Program - North Central IPM Center | $25,000 |
| McCoy, Kelly | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | U.S. Department of Homeland Security | State Fire Training Systems Grant FY23 | $20,000 |
| Seo, Hyunjin | Journalism | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | Innovative Partnership for Community-based Art Experience Involving Women Transitioning from Incarceration and the Public | $20,000 |
| Cox, Owen | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department for Children And Families | Head Start Collaboration Office Needs Assessment 2022 | $12,805 |
| Azuma, Yoshiaki | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Specific Chromatin Interaction of DNA Topoisomerase II Isoforms and Its Role on Regulation of Their Cellular Function | $10,000 |
| Sims, Megan | Biodiversity Institute | Bureau of Land Management Montana State Office | MT DAK Preservation & Curation of Fossil Vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation | $9,062 |
| Scouffas, Anthea | Lied Center | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | NORTH & the Underground Railroad | $7,500 |
| Liu, Gaisheng | Kansas Geological Survey | Vista Clara, Inc. | Switched-Field Surface Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for Enhanced Detection and Resolution of Shallow Groundwater | $5,766 |
| Mosconi, Matthew | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence Developmental Research Project Program Mentor Award | $1,894 |
| Forbush, Kelsie | Psychology / Life Span Institute | American Psychological Association | 2022 American Psychological Association of Graduate Students/Psi Chi Junior Scientist Fellowship | $1,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | National Technical Assistance Center for Inclusive Practices and Policies | $10,000,000 |
| Alexander, Warren | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Office of Research | Research Rising | Trusting Our Worlds Physical, Digital, Social | $3,000,000 |
| Choi, Jeong Hoon | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Resources Aligned and Integrated for Student Equity (RAISE): Protocol for Grade-level Teams to Intensify Instruction for Students With or At-risk for Disabilities | $2,998,288 |
| Logan, Randall | School of Professional Studies | Intelligence Community Center For Academic Excellence | Kansas Coalition Intelligence Community Centers for Academic Excellence (KC-IC CAE) | $2,410,931 |
| Brady, Nancy | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | FXS: Late Adolescence and Early Adulthood | $2,230,022 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | The University of Kansas Child Care Access means Parents in School Program (KU-CCAMPIS) | $1,794,248 |
| Slusky, Joanna | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Science Foundation | Data-Adaptive and Metamorphosis Machine Learning Architectures for Generative Protein Design of Metal Biosensors | $1,500,000 |
| Counts, Jacqueline | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Public Health | Iowa Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Quality Improvement 2023 | $1,064,746 |
| Dean, Evan | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | Studying the Waiting List for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Physical Disabilities Home and Community Based Services | $971,608 |
| Adams, Glenn | Kansas African Studies Center / Hall Center for the Humanities | U.S. Department of Education | National Resource Center: Supporting Sustainable Connections: The Kansas African Studies Center | $967,444 |
| Scott, Erik | Russian, Eastern European & Eurasian Studies / Hall Center for the Humanities | U.S. Department of Education | National Resource Center: Rethinking Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies in the Heartland for a Global and Digital Age | $843,580 |
| Lieberman, Bruce | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Biodiversity on a Changing Planet Implementation: Using the Past to Predict the Future: How Physiology and other Functional Traits Determine Survival and Extinction in W. Atlantic Mollusks | $799,138 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | New Mexico Public Education Department | New Mexico Dynamic Learning Maps: 2022 - 2023 | $690,440 |
| Lovell, Scott | Higuchi Biosciences Center | Seattle Children's Hospital | Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease Renewal | $590,226 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | Molecular Sub-typing Breast Cancer Patients using a Liquid Biopsy | $568,979 |
| Davidson, Meghan | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | More and Less Social Comprehension: Child and Text Factors for Autistic Children | $556,279 |
| Fang, Huazhen | Mechanical Engineering | The Army Contracting Command | Reinforcement-Learning-based Aerial-Ground Multi-Robot Collaboration with Human-on-the-Loop in Complex Environments | $500,000 |
| Gardner, Sara | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kauffman Foundation | Kauffman 2022 Inclusive Ecosystems | $290,000 |
| Adams, Glenn | Kansas African Studies Center / Hall Center for the Humanities | U.S. Department of Education | Foreign Language and Area Studies: Supporting Sustainable Connections: The Kansas African Studies Center | $269,582 |
| Scott, Erik | Russian, Eastern European & Eurasian Studies / Hall Center for the Humanities | U.S. Department of Education | Foreign Language and Area Studies: Rethinking Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies in the Heartland for a Global and Digital Age | $269,582 |
| Kokobobo, Ani | Slavic, German and Eurasian Studies / Hall Center for the Humanities | The U.S. Russia Foundation | Russian Studies Program for Kansas High Schools | $213,400 |
| Cizek, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | Community-Based Grants for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (CBCAP) | $179,542 |
| Hui, Rongqing | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Computer and Network Systems Core: Medium: A Testbed and a Toolkit for Expediting Investigation of and Accelerating Advancements in All-Optical Neural Networks | $154,928 |
| Kirkpatrick, Allison | Physics and Astronomy | Nasa | How Much Do Active Galactic Nuclei Host Galaxies Contribute to Cosmic Star Formation? | $144,455 |
| Tilden, Christopher | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environmt | Limited-Scope, Interim Year Maternal and Child Health Needs Assessment (TO 23016) | $126,556 |
| Unruh, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas-Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence Developmental Research Project Program: Cortical-striatal Correlates of Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors in Autism Spectrum Disorder | $113,595 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Revenue | Open Records for Kansas Appraisers (OKRA) | $113,500 |
| Kindscher, Kelly | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | The Land Institute | Silphium Ethnobotany and the Cultural Dynamics of New Crop Development | $113,424 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Federal Communications Commission | Kansas Deaf Blind Equipment Distribution--Assistive Technology for Kansans | $109,480 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | American Society For Microbiology | An Evaluation of the Education-Workforce Continuum for Microbiologists | $80,501 |
| Hale, Richard | Aerospace Engineering | Wichita State University | Kansas National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program - Opportunities in NASA STEM FY 2020-2024 | $75,729 |
| Sprague-Jones, Jessica | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Families And Communities Rising, Inc. | National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention | $70,000 |
| Tran, Dai | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-TRAN KU 23-16: Evaluation of Quality Control and Quality Assurance for Alternative Contracting Projects: Impementation Strategies and Key Lessons for KDOT | $62,329 |
| Kondyli, Alexandra | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | KTRAN KU 23-2: Understanding the Effects of Automated Truck Platoooning on Workforce in Kansas | $55,000 |
| Lequesne, Remy | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-Tran: KU 23-5: Legal Truck Load Ratings for Standard Reinforced Concrete Boxes and Rigid Frame Boxes for HL 93 Loading | $44,049 |
| Williams, Susan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Kansas Soybean Commission | Expanding Biodiesel Education and Utilization Through the Kansas Biodiesel Consortium | $42,670 |
| Liu, Lin | Mechanical Engineering | Wichita State University | SRI: Enhancing Sustainability and Resilience of Solid-State Battery Systems for Space Exploration via Precision Prognostics and Health Management | $40,000 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Corporation Commission | Kansas On-Line Automated Reporting (KOLAR) project FY 2023 | $40,000 |
| Brook, Joanna | Social Welfare | OK Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse | Oklahoma Partnership Initiative, Phase 3: Program Evaluation FY23 | $38,500 |
| Hall, Amber | Psychology | KU Endowment Association | Developing a Representative Cohort to study Midlife Risk Factors for Alzheimers Disease | $36,594 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | Active Treatment Training Program-KNI | $35,000 |
| Kelly, Kara | Biodiversity Institute | Environmental Solutions And Innovations Inc. | Archaeological Curation Services (FY22-23), Northwestern Division, Kansas City District | $33,155 |
| Johnson, David | Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Maryland - Baltimore | Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Receptor Type D Phosphatase Inhibitors for Stimulant Use Disorders | $26,775 |
| Tamerler Behar, Candan | Engineering Administration / Institute for Bioengineering Research | University of Oslo | Multispecies Biofilm for Investigate Non-antibiotic Therapies in Dentistry (MISFAITH) | $25,100 |
| Sathyamoorthi, Shyam | Medicinal Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Syntheses and Biological Evaluation of Underexplored Antibiotics and Analogues | $25,000 |
| Ginsberg, Richard | Education Administration / Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S.D. 231 - Gardner Edgerton | Evaluation Audit of Gardner USD 231 Special Education Department | $20,000 |
| Sikes, Benjamin | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Wichita State University | Developing NASA partnerships for a Space Fungal Ecology Program | $19,272 |
| Murray, Michael | Physics and Astronomy | Jefferson Science Associates LLC | Radiation Hardness Tests of Glass Blocks and Software Development for Data Analysis and Simulations | $16,590 |
| Schoenen Jr, Frank | Higuchi Biosciences Center | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | Capitalizing on p53 Losses/Mutations in Osteosarcoma by Novel Compounds | $12,719 |
| Douglas, Justin | Molecular Structures Group / Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Lab | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas-Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence Core Facility Support | $12,716 |
| Kemp, Peggy | Life Span Institute | Association of University Centers On Disabilities | Act Early Ambassador 2022 - 2024 | $12,000 |
| Rosa-Molinar, Eduardo | Pharmacology & Toxicology / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Neuroglial Tumor Synapse Revisited | $10,000 |
| Peterson, Andrew | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | Kansas Department of Wildlife And Parks | The Bunker Resurvey Project: A Century of Environmental Change in Kansas | $8,800 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | KSKidsMAP, Integrated Referral and Information System Expansion | $5,623 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Pennsylvania Department of Education | Pennsylvania Dynamic Learning Maps: 2022-2027 Operational/Testing + Science Development + Additional Services | $18,245,344 |
| Wolfe, Michael | Medicinal Chemistry | Research Rising | Big Data for Drug Discovery | $3,000,000 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | Research Rising | Growing KU's Interdisciplinary Strengths in Genomics | $2,999,272 |
| Colombo, John | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences / Life Span Institute | Research Rising | Advancing Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research at KU | $2,969,753 |
| Beck, Darin | Law Enforcement Training Center / CED Center for Public Safety Leadership | U.S. Department of Justice | Rural Law Enforcement Training | $2,000,000 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program | $1,615,330 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas Upward Bound Math and Science Program, Leavenworth and Turner | $1,488,005 |
| Burgin, Amy | Environmental Studies Program / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Bridges to the Baccalaureate Research Training Program at the University of Kansas/Haskell Indian Nations University | $1,233,748 |
| Takeyama, Akiko | Women Gender & Sexuality Studies / Hall Center for the Humanities | U.S. Department of Education | Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Program: Global Asia | $1,078,328 |
| Takeyama, Akiko | Women Gender & Sexuality Studies / Hall Center for the Humanities | U.S. Department of Education | National Resource Center: Global Asia | $1,053,688 |
| Kim, Taejoon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Grant Opportunity for Academic Liaison with Industry: Computer and Network Systems: Medium: Communication-Computation Co-design for Rural Connectivity and Intelligence under Nonuniformity: Modeling, Analysis, and Implementation | $1,000,000 |
| Schneider, Blair | Kansas Geological Survey | National Science Foundation | Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Bridging EPSCoR Communities: Mitigating COVID-19 Career Challenges with Research an Professional Development Training for Undergraduate Students and Mentors in Field-based Environmental Sciences | $999,835 |
| Gardner, Sara | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet & Trust Fund | Kansas Workforce Registry | $775,000 |
| Agusto, Folashade | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Science Foundation | Research Advanced by Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering: Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models: Project Inclusion of challenges from Social Isolation Governed by Human behavior through Transformative research in epidemiological modeling | $711,148 |
| Mechem, David | Geography & Atmospheric Science | U.S. Department of Energy | Using Atmospheric System Research Observations and Large-eddy Simulation to Constrain Cloud Processing of Cloud Condensation Nuclei in Boundary-layer Clouds Over the Eastern North Atlantic | $618,448 |
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities: 2022-2027 | $577,735 |
| Schneider, Blair | Kansas Geological Survey | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers Partnership: Empowering Scientists to Transform Workplace Climate Through the ADVANCEGeo Community-based Intervention Program | $482,617 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oak Foundation USA | Validate the Equity/Multi-tiered Systems of Support Tools to Assess and Monitor Progress for Educators, Schools and Districts | $450,000 |
| Peterson, Andrew | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Digitization and Enrichment of U.S. Herbarium Data from Tropical Africa to Enable Urgent Quantitative Conservation Assessments | $425,065 |
| Bloom, Steven | Medicinal Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | New Catalytic Strategies to Make Non-proteinogenic Peptides | $382,500 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Institutes of Health | Science of Science Policy Approach to Analyzing and Innovating the Biomedical Research Enterprise: Examining the Career Barriers Confronting African American or Black Biomedical Scientists | $277,523 |
| Walker, James | Geology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Facility: Next Generation Interoperable Data Infrastructure for Geoscience Sample Data: Interdisciplinary Earth Daya Alliance Reinvented | $265,042 |
| Hardy, Saralyn | Spencer Museum of Art | Institute of Museum & Library Services | Database and Application Development for Access, Education, and Research | $250,000 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Institute for Sustainabile Engineering | National Science Foundation | The Kansas University Refrigerant Ionic Liquid Separation (KU-RISE) | $249,551 |
| Butler Jr, James | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Kansas River Alluvial Aquifer Observation Well Network Maintenance and Modeling | $240,000 |
| Stearns, Leigh | Geology / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Machine-enabled Modeling of Terminus Ablation for Greenland's Outlet Glaciers | $238,655 |
| Potter, Nicole | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Preserving Kansas Geologic Data, Documents, Samples, and Aerial Photographs; and Surveying Drill Hole/Core Holdings Relating to Critical Mineral Resources | $185,619 |
| Fry, Andrew | Health Sport & Exercise Science / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Hewlett-Packard Company | Stress Responses During Collegiate eSports Competition: A Psycho-Physiological Examination | $127,978 |
| Barton, Jared | Social Welfare | Connecticut Department of Children & Families | Annual Subscription to Results Oriented Management Reports (Connecticut FY 2023) | $101,315 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Origin Materials | Origin 3.4: Analytical Support Services for Origin Materials | $82,142 |
| Darwin, David | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-Transportation Research and New Developments Program KU 23-3: Evaluation of Multi-layer Polymer Concrete Overlays | $77,662 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Lockheed Martin | Dual-function Radar/Communications Waveforms and Multi-GHz Bandwidth Array Calibration | $74,999 |
| Marshall, Craig | Geology | Southwest Research Institute | Microhabitable Environments in Ice | $74,977 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Evaluation of Rural Roundabouts | $62,500 |
| Atkinson, Simon | Office of Research | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | H2Hub Hydrogen Hub | $50,000 |
| Johnson, Michael | Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Sub-cellular Neurotransmitter Population Dynamics in Chemobrain | $35,000 |
| McCormick, Patrick | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Defense Engineering Corporation | Multi-Function Emission Characterization with Radio Frequency Digital Arrays in the Presence of Modeling Errors | $35,000 |
| Slusky, Joanna | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | K-INBRE Institutional Funds | Exploring Uncharted Regions of Protein Space in the Design of De Novo Barrels | $25,000 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | K-Inbre Institutional Funds | Single-nucleus RNA Sequencing to Uncover Sperm Developmental Alterations During Spermatogenesis Due to Genetic Conflict in Drosophila | $25,000 |
| Scurto, Aaron | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Institute for Sustainabile Engineering | W. L. Gore Associates Inc. | Measurement of Polymer Solubility in Supercritical Fluids | $20,930 |
| Hageman, Michael | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | University of New Mexico | Spray Drying Od Essential Oil-base Larvicides | $19,500 |
| Lundquist, Erik | Office of Research / Molecular Biosciences | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Service Contract for the Illumina NextSeq550 and MiSeq Sequencing Systems in the KU Genome Sequencing Core | $15,300 |
| Bartlow, Noel | Geology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Near-Trench Community Geodetic Experiment | $15,288 |
| Gumbel, Roberta | Music | National Endowment For The Arts | To Support a Workshop Production of Never Quite by Composer Susan Kander and Librettist Roberta Gumbel | $10,000 |
| Siahaan, Teruna | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine | $7,238 |
| Kaplinger, Brian | Aerospace Engineering | KSF Space Foundation | Jupiter I Rocket Development Project | $7,000 |
| Von Esenwein, Silke | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Emory University | Emory Home Visiting Program | $6,732 |
| Cai, Hui | Architecture & Design | Perkinswill | Design of the Rush University Medical Tower and the Impact on the Perception of Provision Care | $4,600 |
| Shellhorn, Jeremy | Design | University of Montana | Designing and Testing Leave No Trace Signage Using Research-based Visual Communication and Outdoor Recreation Messaging Principles | $2,994 |
| Hanson Abromeit, Deanna | Music | Florida Gulf Coast University | Feasibility of the Musical Contour Regulation Facilitation Intervention to Support Emotion Regulation in At-Risk Preschoolers: A Clinical Pilot Study | $2,951 |
| Amlung, Michael | Applied Behavioral Science | Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis | Examining the Effect of Cannabis-Related Cues on Demand for Cannabis in Everyday Drug-Use Contexts | $2,500 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sturm, Belinda | Office of Research / Kansas NSF EPSCoR | National Science Foundation | RII Track-1: Adaptive and Resilient Infrastructures Driven by Social Equity (ARISE) | $23,097,733 |
| Lane, Kathleen | Office of Research / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Project ENGAGE: Enhancing Student Engagement to Facilitate Learning and Well-Being | $3,000,000 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Maryland State Department of Education | Maryland DLM: 2022-2023 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Sci) + Additional Services | $2,328,436 |
| Caricato, Marco | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Periodic Coupled Cluster Methods for Optical Activity in Chiral Crystals | $456,483 |
| Noonan, Patricia | Center for Research on Learning / Life Span Institute | Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education | FY2023: Missouri Post-Secondary Success Project/ Social-Emotional Learning for All | $298,422 |
| Huerter, Aaron | International Short Programs | Institute of International Education | 2022 Eight-Week Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Pre-Academic Training Program | $296,811 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Origin Materials | Non-MC Screening and Kinetic Studies | $186,567 |
| Mease, Kristina | Business / Small Business Development Center | Fort Hays State University | University of Kansas Small Business Development Center 2022 | $167,328 |
| Gudino, Omar | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | Guadalupe Centers | Research and Clinical Services for Underserved Kids in Kansas City | $147,846 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Samuel Gary Jr. & Associates Inc. | Stewart Field: Simulation and History Matching of Waterflooding and CO2 Injection | $136,563 |
| Baker, Debra | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Shoreline Lacustrine Wetlands in Large Kansas Reservoirs: Status, Trends and Limiting Factors | $122,858 |
| Williams, Susan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Association of American Universities | Re-envisioning Evaluation of Effective Teaching Using Multidimensional Processes | $100,000 |
| Roundy, Joshua | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Reclamation | Incorporating Climate Uncertainty into Water Allocations in Kansas | $97,822 |
| Azuma, Yoshiaki | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Minnesota | A High-Throughput Screen for Inhibitors of Plk1-Interacting Checkpoint Helicase (PICH) | $91,180 |
| Dean, Bartholomew | Anthropology / Institute for Policy & Social Research | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Genetic and Environmental Causes of Diabetes Mellitus 2.0 in Amazonian Populations of Peru | $66,000 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Summer Scholars Year 9 | $60,600 |
| Neufeld, Kristi | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Roles for Adenomatous Polyposis Coli in Colon Injury Prevention and Wound Healing | $56,510 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Undergraduate Research Office | $53,025 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | City of Lawrence | Water Quality Monitoring in Clinton Lake, Kansas to Optimize Drinking Water Intake Depth | $45,672 |
| Wang, Jingxin | Medicinal Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 by RNA-Binding Molecules | $38,250 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Star Trainees Year 9 | $31,815 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Campus Coordinator 2022-2023 | $15,150 |
| Swinburne Romine, Rebecca | Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | iAmHealthy Parents First | $14,832 |
| Cushing, Christopher | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | Feasibility, Acceptability and Preliminary Effectiveness of a Targeted Mobile App for Youth Preparing for Bariatric Surgery | $13,285 |
| Alian, Mohammad | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. | Near-Memory Acceleration of Layer-5 Network Protocols | $10,000 |
| Schneider, Blair | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas State Historical Society | 2022 Grinter Place State Historic Site Geophysical Survey | $3,858 |
| Moyle, Robert | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | American Ornithological Society | Birds as Islands: Using an Avian Contact Zone to Investigate Their Parasite Population Structure | $2,500 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sturm, Belinda | Office of Research / Kansas NSF EPSCoR | National Science Foundation | RII Track-1: Adaptive and Resilient Infrastructures Driven by Social Equity (ARISE) | $23,097,733 |
| Lane, Kathleen | Office of Research / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Project ENGAGE: Enhancing Student Engagement to Facilitate Learning and Well-Being | $3,000,000 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Maryland State Department of Education | Maryland DLM: 2022-2023 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Sci) + Additional Services | $2,328,436 |
| Caricato, Marco | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Periodic Coupled Cluster Methods for Optical Activity in Chiral Crystals | $456,483 |
| Noonan, Patricia | Center for Research on Learning / Life Span Institute | Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education | FY2023: Missouri Post-Secondary Success Project/ Social-Emotional Learning for All | $298,422 |
| Huerter, Aaron | International Short Programs | Institute of International Education | 2022 Eight-Week Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Pre-Academic Training Program | $296,811 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Origin Materials | Non-MC Screening and Kinetic Studies | $186,567 |
| Mease, Kristina | Business / Small Business Development Center | Fort Hays State University | University of Kansas Small Business Development Center 2022 | $167,328 |
| Gudino, Omar | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | Guadalupe Centers | Research and Clinical Services for Underserved Kids in Kansas City | $147,846 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Samuel Gary Jr. & Associates Inc. | Stewart Field: Simulation and History Matching of Waterflooding and CO2 Injection | $136,563 |
| Baker, Debra | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Shoreline Lacustrine Wetlands in Large Kansas Reservoirs: Status, Trends and Limiting Factors | $122,858 |
| Williams, Susan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Association of American Universities | Re-envisioning Evaluation of Effective Teaching Using Multidimensional Processes | $100,000 |
| Roundy, Joshua | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Reclamation | Incorporating Climate Uncertainty into Water Allocations in Kansas | $97,822 |
| Azuma, Yoshiaki | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Minnesota | A High-Throughput Screen for Inhibitors of Plk1-Interacting Checkpoint Helicase (PICH) | $91,180 |
| Dean, Bartholomew | Anthropology / Institute for Policy & Social Research | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Genetic and Environmental Causes of Diabetes Mellitus 2.0 in Amazonian Populations of Peru | $66,000 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Summer Scholars Year 9 | $60,600 |
| Neufeld, Kristi | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Roles for Adenomatous Polyposis Coli in Colon Injury Prevention and Wound Healing | $56,510 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Undergraduate Research Office | $53,025 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | City of Lawrence | Water Quality Monitoring in Clinton Lake, Kansas to Optimize Drinking Water Intake Depth | $45,672 |
| Wang, Jingxin | Medicinal Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 by RNA-Binding Molecules | $38,250 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Star Trainees Year 9 | $31,815 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Campus Coordinator 2022-2023 | $15,150 |
| Swinburne Romine, Rebecca | Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | iAmHealthy Parents First | $14,832 |
| Cushing, Christopher | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | Feasibility, Acceptability and Preliminary Effectiveness of a Targeted Mobile App for Youth Preparing for Bariatric Surgery | $13,285 |
| Alian, Mohammad | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. | Near-Memory Acceleration of Layer-5 Network Protocols | $10,000 |
| Schneider, Blair | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas State Historical Society | 2022 Grinter Place State Historic Site Geophysical Survey | $3,858 |
| Moyle, Robert | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | American Ornithological Society | Birds as Islands: Using an Avian Contact Zone to Investigate Their Parasite Population Structure | $2,500 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bennett, Caroline | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | U.S. Army Corp of Engineers | Improving the Performance of Concrete Dam Infrastructure Through Use of Fiber-reinforced Polymers | $7,740,921 |
| Zipper, Samuel | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Irrigation at the New 100th Meridian: Adaptation to Manage Climate Risks and Preserve Water Resources in the Eastern Kansas River Basin | $750,000 |
| Jackson, Timothy | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Properties and Activation Mechanisms of Mn-hydroperoxo and Mn-alkylperoxo Complexes | $437,828 |
| Cox, Owen | Achievement & Assessment Inst | Michigan Department of Labor Economic Opportunity | An Analysis of Michigan's Deployment of TANF Dollars and Barriers to Access of Benefits | $378,767 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Chan Zuckerberg Initiative | Evaluation of the Science Diversity Leadership Program | $310,000 |
| Nguyen, Trung | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Largo Clean Energy Corp | Electrolyte Densification for Shipping (EDS) Process | $225,000 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Institute for Sustainable Engineering | The Chemours Company | Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic (PBT) Chemical Separation and Destruction to Enable Recovery of Useful Materials for Value Added Applications: KU-Chemours | $218,037 |
| Mantzavinos, Dionyssios | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Nonlinear Wave Models in Domains with a Boundary | $168,087 |
| Sereno, Joan | Linguistics | National Science Foundation | NSF Intergovernmental Personnel Act for Joan Sereno | $157,706 |
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Bioinformatics Core Facility 2022-2023 | $152,850 |
| Volkin, David | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Stanford University | Creating High-resolution, Epitope-focused Vaccines | $147,565 |
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Expanding the Public Health Workforce in Kansas | $113,670 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | MixOnSite USA Inc. | Experimental Study of Lightweight Cellular Concrete Fill for MSE Walls and Buried Pipes | $90,000 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | ATPH-Expanding the Public Health Workforce within the Disability Network: AT St. Grants | $80,000 |
| Lovell, Scott | Higuchi Biosciences Center | Louisiana State University | Small Molecules for Perturbing Iron Homeostasis in Bacterial Biofilms | $68,850 |
| Brockman, Jennifer | Sexual Assault Prevention & Education Center | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Evaluation of Programs at KU Sexual Assault Prevention & Education Center | $42,163 |
| Stinson, Philip | Classics / Hall Center for the Humanities | Harvard University | Salary Support for Completion of the Final Publication on the Excavations of the Julio-Claudian Sebasteion of Aphrodisias, Caria | $40,000 |
| Cai, Hui | Architecture & Design | Foundation for Healthcare Environments Research | Emergency Department (ED) Design for Pandemic Conditions: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic | $30,000 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | Research GO | Effects of Functional Fitness for Adults with Mobility-related Disability: A Pilot Study | $30,000 |
| Kwon, Gibum | Mechanical Engineering | Research GO | All-in-one Electrode Assembly for Single-step Electrochemical Conversion of CO2 and in Situ Collection of the Produced Alcohols | $30,000 |
| Tapia Takaki, Jesus Daniel | Physics & Astronomy | Research GO | 958: Quantum-aware On-board Devices for Multiple Applications in Fundamental and Applied Research | $30,000 |
| Irvin, Dwight | Life Span Institute | Research GO | Using Data to Build the Capacity of Teachers to Support Preschool Children Not Making Progress in Learning Literacy | $29,965 |
| Colaco Morais, Ana | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Research GO | Mechanist Understanding of Direct Hydrodeoxygenation of Carbohydrates into High Carbon Alkanes Toward Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production | $29,943 |
| Harvey, Susan | Health, Sport & Exercise Science | Research GO | An Evaluation of the Purposeful Plates of Food Waste Reduction and Food Recovery Program | $29,929 |
| Sikes, Benjamin | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Research GO | Ernst 37083X: Space Stress Resistance of Microbial Communities | $29,793 |
| Hashemi, Morteza | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Research GO | Retention 43154X: Development of X-Planet: An Experimental Testbed for Advanced 5G and 6G Wireless Research at KU | $29,426 |
| Zhao, Hui | Physics & Astronomy | Research GO | Retention 43154X: Electron Transfer in Artificial Mixed-Dimensional Heterostructures | $27,185 |
| Tell, David | Communication Studies | Research GO | Fund Code 958: The Emmett Till Memory Project | $26,503 |
| Grasley-Boy, Nicolette | Life Span Institute | Research GO | 958: Development of the Caregiver Report of Early Language Interactions (CRELI) Measurement Tool | $25,917 |
| Kirkpatrick, Allison | Physics & Astronomy | Research GO | Retention - 43154X: Observing Supermassive Black Holes with the James Webb Space Telescope | $25,148 |
| Chao, Haiyang | Aerospace Engineering | Research GO | Fund Code 958: Fire Fuel Load Estimation Using Multiscale Satellite and UAS Data Fusion | $25,000 |
| Poggio, John | Educational Psychology | KU Endowment Association | KU Retirees Survey | $25,000 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | Research GO | Hidden Avenues of Natural Selection in Drosophila Melanogaster: Selection on Sperm | $15,105 |
| Bankart, Charles | International Affairs | Institute of International Education | IIE American Passport Project | $4,125 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brewer II, Joseph | Indigenous Studies / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Alfred P Sloan Foundation | Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership | $500,000 |
| Cartwright, Paulyn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Phylogeny of Cnidaria - Convergent Evolution of Eyes, Gene Expression, and Cell Types | $494,890 |
| McKenna, Thomas | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Perennial Agriculture Project, Llc | Interaction of the Perennial Grain Kernza and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: Effects of Selection Pressure and Impacts on Soil Health | $305,343 |
| Swinburne Romine, Russell | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Item Development for New Forms of Alternate ACCESS for ELLs (Alt ACCESS Advancing ALTELLA: Alternate Assessment Redesign | $264,487 |
| Scurto, Aaron | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Institute for Sustainable Engineering | The Chemours Company | Physical Properties and Phase Equilibria of Refrigerant Blends and Co-Blowing Agents in Lubricants, Polystyrene and Polyols: KU-Chemours Part IV | $254,422 |
| Miedlar, Agnieszka | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Acceleration Methods, Iterative Solvers and Heterogeneous Architectures: The New Landscape of Large-Scale Scientific Simulations | $237,272 |
| Darwin, David | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Construction of Low-Cracking High-Performance Bridge Decks Incorporating New Technology | $180,000 |
| McLean, Noah | Geology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Catalytic Track: Improving Accuracy and Efficiency of Multicollector Mass Spectrometry | $128,642 |
| Sun, Hongyang | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Vanderbilt University | Collaborative Research: SHF: Small: Learning Fault Tolerance at Scale | $124,999 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Project Eagle: Early Head Start | $96,046 |
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute | University of California - Los Angeles | Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical Health (AIR-P) | $80,000 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Corporation Commission | Kansas Online Automated Reporting (KOLAR) Project FY 2022 | $40,000 |
| Schultz, Jerry | Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Healthy Communities | $37,786 |
| Jarmolowicz, David | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Chemobrain: Agent Specific Effects on Hippocampal and Striatal Function | $34,916 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Terrametrics Agriculture Inc. | U.S. County Level Corn & Soybean Yield Modeling and Brazil & Argentina Soybean Yield Model Development & Implementation | $34,000 |
| Delisle, Jennifer | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks | 5-year Review of Species of Greatest Conservation Need | $30,478 |
| Desaire, Heather | Chemistry | Duke University | Novel Immunogens to Elicit Broadly Cross-reactive Antibodies that Target the Hemagglutinin Head Trimer Interface. | $30,300 |
| Greenhoot, Andrea | Center for Teaching Excellence | Howard Hughes Medical Institute | 2021 IE3LC: Dr. Andrea Greenhoot | $30,000 |
| Seybold, Erin | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Resources Institute | Spatial Variability and Subsurface Controls of Groundwater Recharge and Nutrient Mobilization in Dry Streams | $20,000 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Resources Institute | Simulating the Effects of Reservoir Management Strategies on In-stream Sediment Load, Streambank Stability, and Water Quality - 2022 | $10,192 |
| O'Rourke, Dennis | Anthropology | KU Center for Genomics | Genomic Assessment of Inuit Prehistory and Adaptation | $9,000 |
| Wagner, Margaret | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | KU Center for Genomics | Mining Bacterial Genomes for Genetic Factors Involved in Microbial Drought Adaptation and Microbially-mediated Drought Tolerance in Plants | $9,000 |
| Devlin, John | Geology | Enbridge Energy, Limited Partnership | Transverse Profiling of the Lakebed Seepage Velocities Across Southern Half of Unnamed Lake, near Bemidji, MN: 2022 | $6,060 |
| Vu, Hong | Journalism | Wichita State University | Creating Educational Technologies to Assist Refugee Learners: Project Education for All | $5,000 |
| Mollet, Amanda | Educational Leadership & Policy Studies / Achievement & Assessment Institute | American College Personnel Association | 2022-2024 ACPA Emerging Scholar | $3,000 |
| Tremblay, Annie | Linguistics | Language Learning: Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics | Testing the Transfer of Online /i/-/i/ Training Effect to Korean L2 Learners of English | $2,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zhao, Liqin | Pharmacology & Toxicology / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Reshaping ApoE4 and Alzheimer's Brains with ApoE2 | $2,931,935 |
| Du, Heng | Pharmacology & Toxicology / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | mtDNA Leakage and STING-dependent Microglial Innate Immune Response in Alzheimer's Ddisease | $2,374,430 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | Oklahoma State Department of Education | $1,649,729 |
| Hasiuk, Franciszek | Kansas Geological Survey | University of Iowa | RII Track-2 FEC: Critical Resource Availability for the Future of the Renewable Energy Industry: Critical Minerals and Ground Water Resources in Iowa and Kansas | $827,539 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Kansas Board of Regents | Kansas Board of Regents EPSCoR Grant Program (2021 - 2025) | $725,000 |
| Tanis, Emily | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | State of the States in Developmental Disabilities: Ongoing Data Collection and Information Dissemination | $635,293 |
| Zipper, Samuel | Kansas Geological Survey | Virginia Tech | DISES: Toward Resilient and Adaptive Community-driven Management of Groundwater-dependent Agricultural Systems | $590,042 |
| McDaniel, Jena | Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Increasing Word Learning Efficiency in Children Who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing through Retrieval Practice | $551,148 |
| Bardas, Alexandru | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science | National Science Foundation | CAREER | SATC: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice: Automation and Metrics in Security Operation Centers | $524,322 |
| Davis, Brandon | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | CAREER | We Dare Defend Our Rights: The Political Use of Law in the Enforcement of Voting Rights | $483,302 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Nanopore Methods for Determining Capsid Viability | $470,546 |
| Peelaers, Hartwin | Physics & Astronomy | National Science Foundation | REU SITE: University of Kansas Physics and Astronomy Research Experiences for Undergraduates | $398,029 |
| Wagner, Margaret | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | North Carolina State University | Dissecting Molecular Plant-microbiome Interactions for Improved Drought Tolerance in Maize | $388,634 |
| Picking, Wendy | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Maryland - Baltimore | Adjuvant Development of the TLR4 Ligand BECC438 | $336,857 |
| Graham, Maryemma | English | National Endowment for the Humanities | Building Literacy and Curating (Critical Cultural) Knowledge in Black Humanities: BLACK DH | $325,000 |
| Gillam, Rebecca | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Health Foundation | Grant Writing Assistance to Kansas Non-profit Organizations 2022 - 2024 | $298,393 |
| Bennett, Caroline | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Federal Highway Administration | Improved Detailing in Steel Bridges to Prevent Constraint-induced Fracture | $265,166 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Transportation | Data Access and Support Center (DASC) GIS Mapping Integration | $253,022 |
| Wu, Judy | Physics & Astronomy | ZenoLeap LLC | Uncooled Quantum Infrared Focal Plane Arrays | $250,000 |
| Naemi Jimenez, Pegah | Social Welfare | Missouri Childrens Trust Fund | Safe Sleep Grant Program Evaluation for the Missouri Childrens Trust | $248,528 |
| Colombo, John | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences / Life Span Institute | South Australian Health Medical Research Institute | The Effects of Feeding In-term Infants with an Improved Infant Formula on Neurodevelopmental Outcomes (IMAGINE) | $230,550 |
| Tamerler Behar, Candan | Mechanical Engineering | Archer Daniels Midland | ADM-KU Research Initiative on Enzyme Immobilization | $218,809 |
| Holmes, Cheryl | Social Welfare | Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute | Health, Food, and Family: Rural Systems and COVID-19 Decision Making | $200,000 |
| Hoque, Tamzidul | Electrical Engineering & Comp Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Peek Inside the Box: Gamified Learning of Computing Hardware Fundamentals | $200,000 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Idaho State Department of Education | SECTR: Idaho Lives Project (ID-AWARE) | $161,503 |
| Berkland, Cory | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | University of Missouri - Columbia | Midwest Biomedical Accelerator Cconsortium: MBArC | $153,000 |
| Collins, William | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Modjeski Masters | Assessment of Ultra-gigh Toughness Steel for Highway Bridges | $129,896 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | Oklahoma AWARE South | $124,689 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | BioFluidica | Develop POCT COVID-19 Instrument | $116,178 |
| Tilvawala, Ronak | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of California - San Diego | Engineering Native E. coli to Detect, Report, and Treat Colorectal Cancer - 1 U01 CA265719-01 | $111,275 |
| Geana, Mugur | Journalism | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Localized Health Approach to Boosting COVID-19 Testing and Vaccine Literacy, Access, and Uptake among Women with Criminal Legal System Involvement in Three Cities | $110,873 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Streambank Evaluation of the Cottonwood and Neosho Rivers above John Redmond Reservoir | $100,000 |
| Daley, Dorothy | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Climate Change and Health Equity: Examining the Intersection of Climate Change Risks and Health Equity | $99,539 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | MAVIS Project KCC Perinatal Behavioral Health Activities | $99,482 |
| Bigelow, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | MIECHV Continuous Quality Improvement FY22 | $92,159 |
| Sprague-Jones, Jessica | Achievement & Assessment Inst | Families & Communities Rising Inc. | National Center for Community-based Child Abuse Prevention | $85,000 |
| Bean, Alice | Physics & Astronomy | University of Nebraska - Lincoln | U.S. CMS Operations at the Large Hadron Collider | $84,850 |
| Sutley, Elaina | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Florida International University | Hurricane Loss Reduction | $63,394 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics | The Reach Healthcare Foundation | The Costs to Kansans of Failure to Expand Medicaid | $55,000 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Effectiveness of Automated Pavement Restriping Systems: Phase I | $50,000 |
| Xu, Liang | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Precision Cancer Medicine Targeting the RNA-binding Protein Musashi | $50,000 |
| Hardesty, Jo | Legal Services for Students | Internal Revenue Service | VITA Grant Project | $47,680 |
| Forrest, Marcus | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Missouri - Columbia | ImmunAdvisor: High-throughput T Cell Receptor Discovery for Affordable Commercial Personalized Cancer Therapies | $46,323 |
| Bumble, Jennifer | Life Span Institute | University of California - Los Angeles | Mapping My Health: A Community Mapping Intervention to Enhance the Self-Determination and Physical Health and Well-Being of Autistic Adolescents | $42,347 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Flood Mapping Tool Development: Real-time Flood Mapping for Kansas Part 3 | $40,000 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Comp Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Ierus Technologies Inc. | SBIR Phase I: Optimized Waveforms for X-band Missile-defense Radars | $40,000 |
| Von Esenwein, Silke | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | KDHE Master Agreement: Ripple Effects Mapping Task Order 22032 | $39,682 |
| Nguyen, Cambrey | Pharmacy Practice | Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America Foundation | Providing Accessible Written Medication Information for Patients Using Assistive Technology | $37,500 |
| Murray, Michael | Physics & Astronomy | Jefferson Science Associates LLC | Services of EIC Fellowship Winner, Alexander "Sasha" Bylinkin during the Period 2/1/22 - 5/31/22 | $36,000 |
| Jarmolowicz, David | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Cancer Center | Chemobrain: Agent-specific Effects on Hippocampal and Striatal Function | $34,916 |
| Adair, Mary | Biodiversity Institute | U.S. Department of Interior-Bureau Reclamation | Long-term Property Curation with the University of Kansas | $33,386 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Tiny K: Infant Toddler Assistive Technology Services | $29,584 |
| Elliott, Lindsay | Institute for Policy & Social Research | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Teachers and Students for Community-oriented Research and Education: Linking Industry Partners, Faculty, and Teachers (TSCORE LIFT) | $28,767 |
| Dhar, Prajnaparamita | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Immunovant Inc. | Surfactant Studies for Immunovant Formulations | $26,678 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Army Educational Outreach Program | Army Educational Outreach Program (UNITE) | $25,200 |
| Rong, Panying | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | American Speech-Language-Hearing Association | A Novel Multimodal Framework for Automated Objective Evaluation of Speech Impairment in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis | $25,000 |
| Seven, Yagmur | Life Span Institute | American Speech-Language-Hearing Association | Development and Initial Validation of the Family Need Assessment Survey | $25,000 |
| Bergman, Patricia | Economic Development / Office of Research | KU Medical Center Research Institute | The Sustainable Heartland Accelerator Regional Partnership (SHARP) Hub | $22,000 |
| Li, Xiaoli | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | University of North Dakota | Saturation Pressure and Swelling Factor for Oil/Ethane and Oil/Propane Systems | $20,499 |
| Bagwell-Gray, Meredith | Social Welfare | KU Racial Equity Fund | Promoting Cervical Health for Latina Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: A Community Engagement Project to Culturally Adapt a Trauma-Informed Approach | $20,000 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Kansas Water Resources Institute | Experimental and Modeling Investigation of Fluid-fluid and Rock-fluid Compatibility between Arbuckle and Lansing Kansas City Formations with the Purpose of Produced Water-Exchange Between the Two Form | $20,000 |
| Ukpokodu, Peter | African & African American Studies | KU Racial Equity Fund | The Search for Anno Domini MMXXI-I-VI | $20,000 |
| Husic, Admin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Water Resources Institute | Benthic Cyanobacterial Mats: A Potential Source of Harmful and Nuisance Compounds to Kansas Streams | $20,000 |
| Dhar, Prajnaparamita | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | KU Racial Equity Fund | Promoting Retention for Underrepresented Engineering Graduate Students through Inclusive Teaching and Research Lab Practices | $19,997 |
| Christensen, Kara | Psychology / Life Span Institute | American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation (Aasm Foundation) | SLEEP-E: Sleep Education for Eating Disorder Treatment Providers | $19,900 |
| Rudnick, Gregory | Physics & Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Toward a Spatially-resolved Kennicutt-Schmidt Law in High-redshift Cluster Galaxies: The Interplay between Molecular Gas, Star Formation, and Stellar Mass with ALMA and HST | $19,339 |
| Van de Riet, Amy | Architecture & Design | KU Racial Equity Fund | Documenting the Work of Kansas Architect Charles McAfee | $18,387 |
| Soberon, Jorge | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | KU Racial Equity Fund | A Multicultural Perspective to a Museum Exhibit: The Panorama at the Kansas Museum of Natural History | $17,502 |
| Chen, Yi Chun | Journalism | KU Medical Center Research Institute | RADx-UP: Improving the Response of Local Urban and Rural Communities to Disparities in COVID-19 Testing | $16,730 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volkin, David | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Analytical Characterization and Formulation Development of Vaccine Candidates Targeted for Low- and Middle- income Countries (LMICs) | $9,476,879 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | Biotechnology Resource Center for BioModular Multi-scale Systems (CBM2) for Precision Medicine | $5,933,432 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Karvonen, Meagan | State of New Jersey Department of Education | New Jersey DLM: 21-22 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Science) + Translation + Additional Services | $2,093,014 |
| Cope, Dale | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Arctic Slope Community Foundation Inc. | Writing and Revising Interventions to Excel: Using Learning Maps and Interventions to Improve Written Communication (WRITE) for Alaska Native CTE Students | $1,222,242 |
| Thompson, Jomella | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | Centers for Disease Control & Prevention | Evaluation of a Comprehensive Approach to Address Youth Violence through the Kansas City Youth Violence Prevention Center | $1,199,995 |
| Keshmiri, Shawn | Aerospace Engineering / Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets | Kansas State University | Learning, Exploration, and Application for Prospective Engineering Students (LEAPES) | $951,804 |
| Michaelis, Elias | Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | KU ADRC Biomarker Core | $947,600 |
| Laird, Brian | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | MRI: Acquisition of a High-performance Computing Cluster for Science and Engineering Research at the University of Kansas | $687,060 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | 2022 Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) | $600,000 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Institute for Sustainable Engineering | Booz, Allen, Hamilton Inc. | Design of an Ammonia + Ionic Liquid Development Test Rig | $440,530 |
| Sturm, Belinda | Office of Research / Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas State University | Integrated Anaerobic Membrance Bioreactor (AnMBR): Electro-assisted Fermentation Platform for Total Resource Recovery from Diverse Wastewaters | $314,097 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Illinois State Board of Education | 2022: Integrated Referral and Intake System (IRIS) | $253,975 |
| Xu, Liang | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Florida | Integrative Functional Profiling of Tumor-derived Extracellular Vesicles | $226,332 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wisconsin Department of Children & Families | 2022: Wisconsin Family Foundations Home Visiting Shared Measurements System | $207,770 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Origin Materials | General Purpose Oxidation Program for FDCA and TPA | $164,991 |
| Hui, Rongqing | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Ciena Corporation | Coherent Few-line Sources for Optical Super-channel Generation | $153,763 |
| Martin, Susan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Ariadne Software | Agreement with Ariadne Software for KU Research Engineer | $153,221 |
| Xu, Liang | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Missouri, Columbia | Improve Cancer Immunotherapy by Targeting RNA-binding Protein HuR | $153,000 |
| Vieglais, David | Biodiversity Institute | Columbia University | Collaborative Research | Frameworks: Internet of Samples: Toward an Interdisciplinary Cyberinfrastructure for Material Samples | $144,738 |
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Norcal Geophysical Consultants Inc. | High-resolution Seismic Reflection to Map Bedrock, Faulting, and Lithologic Contacts in the Upper 1 km in White Pine County, Nevada | $132,427 |
| Schnitz, Alana | Life Span Institute | The Family Conservancy | Start Young | $125,486 |
| Garstka, Teri | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | MIECHV Coordinated State Evaluation FY21 MA 48567 UKCR | $122,477 |
| Huang, Cheng | Aerospace Engineering | University of Michigan | Multi-fidelity Modeling of Rocket Combustor Dynamics | $115,000 |
| Bennett, Caroline | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Federal Highway Administration | Innovative Practices to Educate Bridge Engineering Practitioners | $112,413 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Sedgwick County Health Department | Sedgwick County Home Visiting DAISEY | $104,001 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Origin Materials | Development of Catalyzed Hydrogenolysis-purification for FDCA | $102,471 |
| Beck, Darin | Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center | U.S. Department of Justice | Kansas Law Enforcement Accreditation Program (KLEAP) | $100,000 |
| Stearns, Leigh | Geology | U.S. Army Corp of Engineers | Automated Iceberg Identification Using Machine Learning Imaging Techniques | $99,973 |
| Allgeier, Alan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Wichita State University | KSC Exploration Systems and Development | Moon to Mars: Gas Separation Processes for High Purity Methane Production | $99,882 |
| Gillam, Rebecca | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Health Foundation | Grant Writing Assistance to Kansas Non-profit Organizations 2022-2024 | $98,272 |
| Wilson, Blake | Kansas Geological Survey | Southwest Kansas Groundwater Management, District #3 | Update of the GMD #3 Groundwater Flow Model | $80,000 |
| Gillam, Rebecca | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kickapoo Tribe | Grants to Tribes, Tribal Organizations and Migrant Programs for Community-based Child Abuse Prevention Programs | $79,436 |
| Yi, Richard | Psychology / Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical & Translational Science Institute (Postdoctoral Trainee Aaron Smith) | $74,401 |
| Darabi Konartakhteh, Masoud | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Texas A&M University at Qatar | Innovative Techniques for Stabilization of Qatari Soils Using Organic and Geopolymers | $68,028 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering / Transportation Center | Kansas State University Sponsored Programs Accounting | Traffic Assistance Services for Kansas (TASK) Program (FY 2022-2023) | $66,000 |
| Olcott Marshall, Alison | Geology | Cornell University | Oceans Across Space and Time | $65,899 |
| Ginsberg, Richard | Education / Achievement & Assessment Institute | USD 500, Kansas City | $65,000 | |
| Subramanian, Jaichandar | Pharmacology & Toxicology | KU Medical Center Research Institute | In vivo Imaging and Pharmacological Targeting of Mitophagy in Mouse Models of Alzheimer's Disease | $56,500 |
| Rogers, David | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Medical Entomology Subject Matter Expert for EHC | $30,000 |
| Thompson, Jomella | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | Unified Government of Wyandotte County & Kansas City, Kansas | Building Capacity for the Application and Evaluation of the Three CHIP Lenses | $30,000 |
| Kindscher, Kelly | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Three Affiliated Tribes | Arikara Corn and Agriculture: A Historical Honoring | $28,640 |
| Akin, Rebecca | Social Welfare | KU Racial Equity Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity Fund | Wyandotte County Rising | $20,000 |
| Chong, Kelly | Sociology | KU Racial Equity Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity Fund | Invisibility and Rage: Asian Americans, Racial Trauma, and Mental Health | $20,000 |
| Takeyama, Akiko | Women Gender & Sexuality Studies / Center for East Asian Studies | KU Racial Equity Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity Fund | Prelude | $20,000 |
| Husic, Admin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | KU Racial Equity Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity Fund | Evaluating the Racial Equity of Flooding Hazards in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area | $19,607 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingston, Neal | Educational Psychology / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Project Lead the Way Inc. | PLTW End-of-course Assessment System | $5,531,762 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | National Science Foundation | RII Track-2 FEC: Advanced Manufacturing of Renewable and Recyclable Polymers | $4,000,000 |
| Byers, Kaela | Social Welfare | Administration For Children & Families | Universal Prevention for Strong and Thriving Families (Family Strong) | $3,747,804 |
| Bever, James | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | BII: New Roots for Restoration: Integrating Plant Traits, Communities, and the Soil Ecosphere to Advance Restoration of Natural and Agricultural Systems | $3,019,557 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Project SEMILLA (Supporting Educators, Math Instructors, and Language Learners for Advancement) | $2,440,034 |
| Sathyamoorthi, Shyam | Medicinal Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Tethered aza-Wacker Technology for Complex Antibiotic Assembly | $1,864,708 |
| Paden, John | Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets | Oregon State University | Center for OLDest Ice EXploration (COLDEX) | $1,695,634 |
| Hasiuk, Franciszek | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Department of Energy | Critical Minerals in Coaly Strata of the Cherokee-Forest City Basin | $1,585,000 |
| Straughn, MaryCelka | Spencer Museum of Art | U.S. Department of Education | PEAK: Partners in Education Across Kansas | $1,450,585 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | New Hampshire Department of Education | NH DLM: 21-24 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Science) + Science Development + Additional Services | $1,350,900 |
| Vakser, Ilya | Computational Biology | National Institutes of Health | Integrated Resource for Protein Recognition Studies | $1,307,243 |
| Dean, Evan | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Kansas Self-determined Transition Employment Partnership (K-STEP): Youth-led Systems Change for Enhanced Transition and Employment Outcomes | $1,125,000 |
| Counts, Jacqueline | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department for Children & Families | DCF ARPA Planning and Support | $1,092,329 |
| Kondyli, Alexandra | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | SCC-CIVIC-FA Track A: Connecting Underrepresented Youths with Employment Opportunities | $1,000,000 |
| Hefty, Phillip | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Kansas Board of Regents | Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease – Phase II (KBOR FY 2022) | $625,000 |
| Hall, Jean | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Using the National Survey on Health and Disability Panel to Document the COVID-19 Pandemic Experiences of Working-age Americans with Disabilities | $600,000 |
| Dean, Evan | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Kansas Self-determined Transition Taskforce: Moving Forward to Enhance Transition Outcomes | $562,500 |
| Smith, Jon | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Geologic Mapping in Kansas for FY21 | $517,950 |
| Akin, Rebecca | Social Welfare | Administration For Children & Families | Kansas Invests in Families (KInvest) | $500,000 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics & Astronomy | University of California Santa Cruz | Follow the Volatiles: Tracing Chemical Species Relevant to Habitability from Proto-planetary Disks to Exoplanet Atmospheres | $456,413 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Kansas State Plan for Assistive Technology | $449,207 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | U.S. Army Corp of Engineers | Novel 3D-printed Zeolite Passive Samplers Enabling Fast and Reliable Measurements of PFAS in Complex Environmental Matrices (EL-32) | $381,709 |
| Robinson, Jennifer | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Biomaterial Technologies for Interrogating Sex Differences in Tissue Repair and Homeostasis | $370,780 |
| Lovell, Scott | Higuchi Biosciences Center | Seattle Children's Hospital | Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease | $366,427 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics & Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Isotopic and Elemental Abundances in Stars and Planets | $334,252 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Kansas Maternal and Child Health Services integration: DAISEY Design & Implementation | $289,993 |
| Counts, Jacqueline | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Public Health | Iowa MIECHV Quality Improvement 2022 | $254,118 |
| Seo, Hyunjin | Journalism / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Health Foundation | Kansas Digital Equity and Inclusion Collaborative | $249,857 |
| Tapia Takaki, Jesus Daniel | Physics & Astronomy | National Science Foundation | NSF Accelnet: Inter-American Network of Networks of Quantum Chromo-dynamics Challenges | $249,222 |
| Huang, Cheng | Aerospace Engineering | Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc. | Multiphysics Modeling of Dynamic Combustion Processes | $208,500 |
| Schoeneich, Christian | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Eli Lilly & Company | Mechanistic Understanding of Polysorbate 20/80 Oxidation Due to Potential Process-related Impurities in Biologic Drug Product | $200,000 |
| Smith, Adam | Pharmacology & Toxicology | Kinoxis Therapeutics | A Novel Pharmacological Approach to Treat Social Anxiety | $188,969 |
| Rosenblum, Brian | Libraries / Hall Center for the Humanities | National Endowment for the Humanities | The Public Digital Humanities: An Institute for Academic/Community Collaborations | $185,005 |
| Leuschen, Carlton | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets | NASA | Supplemental Funding for Integration of the Snow Radar onto a Long-endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Thickness Measurements of Snow over Sea Ice and Land Ice | $153,563 |
| Mitchiner, Melinda | Life Span Institute | Oregon Department of Education | Oregon Aspiring Leaders Summer Institute | $142,500 |
| Sturm, Belinda | Office of Research / Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Monitoring (Patterson Foundation Funds) | $125,000 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Revenue | 2021-2023 Kansas OnLine Automated Reporting (KOLAR) Project | $122,000 |
| Darwin, David | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Oklahoma Department of Transportation | Bond Behavior of Epoxy-coated Reinforcing Bars in Non-proprietary UHPC | $116,834 |
| Wilson, Blake | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Maintain and Expand Existing Kansas-based Data Services to the NGWMN, 2021-2022 | $116,261.70 |
| McCormick, Patrick | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Wright Brothers Institute | Frequency Diverse Array Receive Algorithm Development | $110,000 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Pennsylvanian Stratigraphic Nomenclature Reconciliation in the Midcontinent | $101,781 |
| Cizek, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Casey Family Programs | Kansas Thriving Families, Safer Children | $100,009 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Sediment Coring for HAB Trends at Tuttle and Waconda Reservoirs | $100,000 |
| Mosconi, Matthew | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Lateralization of Sensorimotor Behavior and Cortical-cerebellar Networks in Autism | $88,278 |
| Rice, Mabel | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | Amira Learning Inc. | An Innovative Screener for Reading and SLI Targeting Kindergarten through 3rd-grade Students | $84,671 |
| Wilson, Blake | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Update of the GMD #3 Groundwater Flow Model | $80,000 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | AWARE-SEA (2021-2022) | $79,522 |
| Lovell, Scott | Higuchi Biosciences Center | Kansas State University | Small-molecule Inhibitors Against 3C-like Protease of SARS-CoV-2 | $75,750 |
| Hale, Richard | Aerospace Engineering | Wichita State University | Kansas National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program: Opportunities in NASA STEM FY 2020-2024 | $75,729 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Community Health Access Section Kansas Statewide Farmworker Health Program Evaluation | $71,956 |
| Cizek, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Douglas County, Kansas | Douglas County, Kansas and City of Lawrence, Kansas Homelessness Needs Assessment | $71,525 |
| Blakemore, James | Chemistry / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Chevron Phillips Chemical Company | Redox Behavior of Catalysts for Olefin Oligomerization 3: Joint Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Studies | $69,000 |
| Yi, Richard | Psychology / Life Span Institute | Henry Ford Health System | Reducing Maternal Delay Discounting as a Target Mechanism to Decrease Harsh Parenting and Improve Child Mental Health Outcomes in a Traditionally Underserved Community | $66,531 |
| Cheong, So-Min | Geography & Atmospheric Science | National Science Foundation | RAPID | Infrastructural Failures and the Role of the Built Environment: The Case of the Winter Storm in Houston, Texas | $65,000 |
| Bailey, Beth | History / Hall Center for the Humanities | National Endowment for the Humanities | The U.S. Army and "The Problem of Race" during the Vietnam Era | $60,000 |
| Schieberle, Misty | English / Hall Center for the Humanities | National Endowment for the Humanities | Patriarchy, Politics, and Christine de Pizan's Influence on English Literature, 1400-1478 | $60,000 |
| Guo, Lan | Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Mitochondrial DNA Stress and STING-dependent Microglial Activation in Alzheimer's Disease | $60,000 |
| Johnson, Rachel | International Affairs | U.S. Department of Education | Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award | $55,214 |
| Alian, Mohammad | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Development of PIM and AXDIMM Ecosystem | $54,743 |
| Sturm, Belinda | Office of Research / Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Monitoring (CARES Funds) | $52,000 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences | KU Medical Center Research Institute | ADC Development Awards: Aging in a C. elegans Model of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias | $47,900 |
| Wilson, Blake | Kansas Geological Survey | Southwest Kansas Groundwater Management, District #3 | Water Use and Climate Evaluation Service to Irrigators for Drought Resiliency in Southwest Kansas | $45,450 |
| Murray, Angela | Achievement & Assessment Institute | JRP Consulting Research Inc. | Montessori Library Project | $43,961 |
| Yi, Richard | Psychology / Life Span Institute | Henry Ford Health System | Improving Delay Discounting to Decrease Harsh Parenting among Parents Receiving Substance Use Treatment in a Low-resource Community | $42,472 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wichita State University | WSU Southeast Wichita GEAR UP Project Evaluation | $40,000 |
| Raley, Sheida | Special Education / Life Span Institute | University of California, Los Angeles | Community-based Self-determination Intervention to Enhance Goal Setting and Attainment Targeting Employment, Postsecondary Education, Community Participation, and Physical Health Outcomes | $39,905.77 |
| Burkhardt, Crystal | Pharmacy Practice | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Remote Monitoring and Virtual Collaborative Care for Hypertension Control to Prevent Cognitive Decline | $39,826 |
| Dixon, Dan | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Colon Cancer Chemoprevention through Inhibition of Exportin 1 (XPO1) | $35,000 |
| Scouffas, Anthea | Lied Center | National Endowment for the Arts | KU Powwow & Indigenous Cultures Festival | $35,000 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Department of Revenue | Research Services to the Governor's Council on Tax Reform | $34,141 |
| Rankey, Eugene | Geology | Kansas Interdisciplinary Carbonates Consortium | Geophysical Characterization of Impacts of Pore-network Geometry from Dissolution and Precipitation in Carbonate Rocks | $31,024 |
| Johnson, Jay | Geography & Atmospheric Science / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Institutional: Major Project Planning Grant | Pathways to Native Environmental STEM Education | $30,178 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory | Multistatic Radar Waveforms | $30,000 |
| Murray, Angela | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wend II Inc. | Montessori Research Retreat | $29,958 |
| LaPierre, Tracey | Sociology | University of Missouri, Kansas City | Kansas City Quality & Value Innovation Consortium: Opioid Project | $29,143 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | City of Paola, Kansas | Monitoring Water Quality in Lake Miola, Kansas | $25,991 |
| Patterson, Meagan | Educational Psychology / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Texas Woman's University | Negotiation in Children: Identifying Gender Differences in a Key Leadership Skill | $25,900 |
| Rice, Mabel | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | Amira Learning Inc. | An Innovative Screener for Reading and SLI Targeting Kindergarten through 3rd-grade Students | $25,378 |
| Gardner, Sara | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Backbone Support Child Care Startup Grants | $25,272 |
| Lieberman, Bruce | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County | Digitization PEN | Collaborative Research: The Cretaceous World Connecting the Cretaceous Seas of North America | $24,850 |
| Cushing, Christopher | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Development and Pilot Testing of My Plan, a Personalized Health Intervention for Adolescent Obesity | $24,600 |
| Fleming, Kandace | Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Rural Disparities in Pediatric Obesity: The iAmHealthy Intervention | $23,035.45 |
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | K-INBRE Institutional Funds | Linking Genomic Physiological and Behavioral Responses to Copper Stress | $22,800 |
| Chao, Haiyang | Aerospace Engineering / Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets | Georgia State University | Smart and Safe Prescribed Burning for Rangeland and Farmland Communities | $22,630 |
| Jen, Sarah | Social Welfare | KU Medical Center Research Institute | ADC Developmental Awards | Psychosocial Adjustment and Coping: A Comparison of Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Non-Hispanic White Individuals Living with Dementia | $21,639 |
| McCoy, Kelly | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training Institute | U.S. Department of Homeland Security | State Fire Training Systems Grant FY22 | $20,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hefty, Phillip | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease | $11,348,826 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas Talent Search | $2,585,135 |
| Levy, Michelle | Social Welfare | Health Resources & Service Administration | Integrated Health Scholars: Partnerships to Advance Practice | $1,865,242 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas Student Support Services | $1,834,160 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | Oklahoma State Department of Education | $1,649,729 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education | Missouri DLM: 21-22 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Science) + Additional Services | $1,622,933 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas Educational Opportunity Center | $1,565,655 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas EOC Leavenworth-Franklin County | $1,363,765 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | New Mexico Public Education Department | New Mexico DLM: 21-22 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Science) + Science Development + Additional Services | $957,107 |
| Wu, Xiaoqing | Higuchi Biosciences Center | U.S. Department of Defense | Targeting RNA-binding Protein HuR as a Novel Therapy for Lethal Prostate Cancer | $892,342 |
| Forbush, Kelsie | Psychology/Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Smart Technology for Anorexia Nervosa Recovery: A Pilot Intervention for the Post-acute Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa | $709,694 |
| Pleskac, Timothy | Psychology / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | Modeling the Dynamics of Belief Formation: Towards a Computational Understanding of the Timing and Accuracy of Probability Judgments | $692,123 |
| Paden, John | Center Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: EarthCube Capabilities: Open Polar Radar (OPoRa) Software and Service | $671,051 |
| Colella, Jocelyn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | CSBR: Rehousing of the Mammal Collection at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute | $645,647 |
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute | University of Texas-Austin | The Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction for Reading (SDLMI-R): Improving Outcomes of Upper Elementary Students with or At-Risk for Reading Disability | $624,589 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | West Virginia Department of Education | West Virginia DLM: 2021-2022 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Science) | $618,000 |
| Kim, Taejoon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science | Purdue University | Distributed Spectrum Scenario Fusion and Compression | $597,776 |
| Dhar, Prajnaparamita | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | National Science Foundation | RET Site: Inquiry-driven Engineering Activities using Bioengineering Examples (IDEA-BioE) | $586,645 |
| Raff, Jennifer | Anthropology / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | Investigating the Genetic History of the Central and Southern Plains | $460,000 |
| Billings, Sharon | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: How Roots, Regolith, Rock and Climate Interact over Decades to Centuries – The R3-C Frontier | $432,634 |
| Picking, Wendy | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | A Vaccine Specifically Targeting T3SS-negative Pseudomonas aeruginosa | $416,625 |
| Hardy, Saralyn | Spencer Museum of Art | National Endowment for the Humanities | Revisioning the Spencer Museum of Art's Collection Galleries | $400,000 |
| Miao, Yinglong | Molecular Biosciences | National Science Foundation | A Public Workflow for Predicting Peptide-binding Structures | $364,812 |
| Bourque, Katherine | Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Exploring Predictors of Response to a Peer-mediated Communication Intervention for Minimally Verbal Preschoolers with ASD | $343,109 |
| Yun, Heechul | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: CPS: Medium: Real-time Criticality-Aware Neural Networks for Mission-critical Cyber-Physical Systems | $321,379 |
| Irvin, Dwight | Life Span Institute | Ohio State University | Leveraging Sensing Systems in Early Education: Transforming Understanding of Critical Features of Young Children's Classroom Experiences | $318,010 |
| Chan, Wai-Lun | Physics & Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Controlling Exciton Dynamics at Interfaces Using Moire Potentials | $310,309 |
| Gonzalez, Victor | Undergraduate Biology Program / Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Digitization TCN: Extending Anthophila Research through Image and Trait Digitization (Big-Bee) | $309,216 |
| Gaumer Erickson, Amy | Center for Research on Learning / Life Span Institute | Tennessee Department of Education | Tennessee Technical Assistance Network (TN-TAN) Evaluation | $302,000 |
| Carta, Judith | Life Span Institute | Health Resources & Service Administration | Bridging the Word Gap Research Network | $300,000 |
| Stearns, Leigh | Geology / Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets | National Science Foundation | EAGER: Extending Greenland Glacier Observations using Newly Discovered Aerial Photographs | $299,943 |
| Houts, Michael | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Information Network of Kansas | Developing the Nested Hexagon Framework as a Multiscale Annotate Geospatia Index for Kansas Datasets | $277,605 |
| Gleason, Jennifer | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Science Foundation | MCA: New Directions in Female Aggression Research | $269,468 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Science Foundation | EAGER: Toward a Tractable Genetic Model of DNA Virus – Drosophila Interaction | $253,573 |
| Hardy, Saralyn | Spencer Museum of Art | Institute of Museum & Library Services | Strengthening Digital Platforms for Teacher, Learning, and Exploration | $250,000 |
| Koch, Lisa | Transportation Research Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Technical Services for the Kansas Rural Transit Assistance Program (RTAP) | $204,998 |
| Barton, Jared | Social Welfare | Wyoming Department of Family Services | Wyoming ROM FY2022 & 2023 | $200,645 |
| Johnson, Mathew | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Modulations of Periodic Waves in Applied Mathematics | $198,000 |
| Stanislavova, Milena | Mathematics / Economics | National Science Foundation | Infinite-dimensional Dynamical Systems: Stability and Long-time Behavior | $197,000 |
| Everman, Elizabeth | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Linking Genomic, Physiological and Behavioral Responses Using a Drosophila Model of Heavy Metal Stress | $180,000 |
| Husic, Admin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Johnson County Public Works Stormwater Management | Identifying the Source of Sediment for Targeted Best Management Practices in Urban and Rural Areas of Johnson County | $159,250 |
| Neidert, Pamela | Applied Behavioral Science | Goodlife Innovations Inc. | KU/GoodLife Contract: Center for Applied Behavior Analysis (CABA) 2021-2022 | $149,903 |
| Brook, Joanna | Social Welfare | Oklahoma Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse | Oklahoma Partnership Initiative, Phase 3: Program Evaluation | $148,000 |
| Murray, Angela | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Shared Presence Foundation | Understanding Early Educational Experiences of Adults with Demonstrated Entrepreneurial Tendencies | $137,760 |
| Bardas, Alexandru | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | National Security Agency | 2021 GenCyber: University of Kansas | $136,244 |
| Unruh, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE DRPP: Cortical-striatal Correlates of Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors in Autism Spectrum Disorder | $113,595 |
| Collado, Anahi | Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Working Memory Training as a Pretreatment Adjunct to Smoking Cessation | $113,041.95 |
| Brunsell, Nathaniel | Geography & Atmospheric Science | Perennial Agriculture Project LLC | Assessing Ecohydrological Implications in Multi-cropping Perennial Systems | $110,000 |
| Stewart, Debora | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Preserving Kansas Geologic Data, Documents, Samples and Aerial Photographs; and Surveying Drill Hole/Core Holdings Relating to Critical Mineral Resources, FY 2021 | $109,585 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | National Science Foundation | Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub (EARTH) | $98,615 |
| Britt, Nicholas | Pharmacy Practice | Shionogi Inc. | Evaluation of Cefiderocol (CFDC) Activity Alone and in Combination with Tobramycin (TOB) or Amikacin (AMK) against Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas Aeriginosa in a Novel Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Sputum pH | $89,419 |
| Barton, Jared | Social Welfare | Connecticut Department of Children & Families | Connecticut ROM FY 2022 | $85,000 |
| Bever, James | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Perennial Agriculture Project LLC | Multi-trophic Interactions in Silphium Integrifolium: Candidate Perennial Oil Seed Crop | $75,418 |
| Forbush, Kelsie | Psychology / Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | FY 2022 Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical & Translational Science Institute | $74,401 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department For Aging & Disability Service | Southeast Kansas Respite Care Services (SEKRS) | $66,100 |
| Gillam, Rebecca | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation | SAMHSA Garrett Lee Smith Grant Implementation Support Contract: Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Youth Wellness Services | $63,786 |
| Peltier, Edward | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | City of Lawrence | KU Sampling Project at the Coblenz Marsh in Lawrence, KS | $59,444 |
| Cushing, Christopher | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Wisconsin-Madison | RE-PACT: Respiratory Exacerbation Plans for Action and Care Transitions for Children with Severe CP | $57,488 |
| Hanson, Paul | Chemistry | Kathera Bioscience Inc. | Ess1: A Pathogenic Fungal Target for a Novel Class of Broad-spectrum Therapeutic Agents | $50,000 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | United Way of Greater Kansas City | United Way Quality Matter Technical Assistance | $50,000 |
| Peterson, Andrew | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Modeling Projects to Support and Advance | $50,000 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | National Science Foundation | Team Iconium: Environmentally Applied Research Towards Hydrofluorocarbons | $50,000 |
| Weis, David | Chemistry | MedImmune Inc. | Patient Centric Drug Product Development: Investigate and Aaddress Preservative-Protein Interactions to Support Multidose Formulation Development for Biologics | $50,000 |
| Williams, Susan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Kansas Soybean Commission | Expanding Biodiesel Education and Utilization through the Kansas Biodiesel Consortium | $46,703 |
| Allgeier, Alan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Kansas Corn Commission | Unlocking the Potential of Chemical Derivatives in Ethanol Production | $42,971 |
| Bartlow, Noel | Geology | U.S. Geological Survey | Bridging the Gap between Locking and ETS in Cascadia using Geodetic Data and Viscoelastic Models: Collaborative Research with the University of Kansas and Indiana University | $41,201.65 |
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Bridging Grant: A Drosophila Resource for the Genetic Analysis of Complex Traits | $39,405 |
| Hale, Richard | Aerospace Engineering | Boeing World Headquarters | Additive Manufacturing of Continuous Fiber Composites for Low-cost Attritable Aircraft | $35,136 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department For Aging & Disability Service | Active Treatment Training Program: Parsons State Hospital | $35,000 |
| Rosa-Molinar, Eduardo | Pharmacology & Toxicology / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | KUCC Spring 2021 Pilot Award: Elucidating and Disrupting De Novo GBM Tumor Cell-Neuron Synapses | $35,000 |
| Houts, Michael | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Douglas County Heritage Conservation Council | Mutt Run Off-Leash Dog Park Pollinator Project | $34,811 |
| Herda, Trent | Health, Sport & Exercise Science | National Strength & Conditioning Association | The Effects of Resistance Training on Motor Unit Activity and Lipids of the Vastus Lateralis in Prepubescent Children | $34,680 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / Transportation Research Center | Kansas State University Sponsored Programs | Traffic Assistance Services for Kansas (TASK) Program (FY 2021-2023) | $33,000 |
| Kwon, Gibum | Mechanical Engineering | Kansas Soybean Commission | Sustained Irrigation of Soybean-Farm Utilizing Soybean Nanoclays as Natural Soil Additives | $32,136 |
| Lines, Brian | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | International Facility Management Association Foundation | FM Technology Report | $30,000 |
| Kaplinger, Brian | Aerospace Engineering | Aldrin Family Foundation | Project Ianos: Past, Present, Future | $29,997 |
| Du, Heng | Pharmacology & Toxicology / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas | Ghrelin Resistance in Alzheimer's Disease | $25,000 |
| Johnson, Michael | Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Inez Jay Fund | Light-initiated Zinc Signaling in Parkinson's Disease | $25,000 |
| Picking, William | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Inez Jay Fund | Applying Novel Approaches to Obtain the Molecular Structures of Difficult T3SS Proteins | $25,000 |
| Twombly, Susan | Educational Leadership & Policy Studies | American Educational Research Association | The Decline in Black Teachers: Causes and Effects in Postwar America | $25,000 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Illinois | All Our Kids Network University of Illinois IRIS Proposal (Year 4) | $24,991 |
| O'Reilly, Matthew | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute Education & Research Foundation | Corrosion Loss to Cause Cracking of Concrete for A1035 Steel | $21,876 |
| MacDonald, Teresa | Biodiversity Institute | Institute of Museum & Library Services | Natural History Mystery: Immersing Families in a Problem-solving Game Using Museum Collections | $21,677 |
| Harper, Dustin | Geology | Columbia University | Participation of Dustin T. Harper on IODP Expedition 396 | $20,834 |
| Akin, Rebecca | Social Welfare | KVC Kansas | KVC Kansas: Kansas PTMO Evaluation | $20,016 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smith, Sean | Special Education / Center for Research on Learning | U.S. Department of Education | Project WRITE-APLM: Writing Strategies for Integrating Technology in Education with the Adaptive Professional Learning Model | $2,461,025 |
| Levy, Michelle | Social Welfare | Health Resources & Service Administration | Integrated Health Scholars: Partnerships to Advance Practice | $1,865,242 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Office of the State Superintendent of Education | District of Columbia Statewide Inclusive Professional Learning Framework and Institute Proposal | $1,500,000 |
| Desaire, Heather | Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | A Study of Race Differences in Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers | $1,123,467 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Child Care Training Opportunity | Statewide Infant-Toddler Specialist Network: KCCTO-KITS Collaboration: 2021-2022 | $1,094,936 |
| Zimmerman, Kathleen | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Enhancing Engagement: Investigating Adaptations to Commonly Used Interventions for Elementary Students with Challenging Behavior | $699,085 |
| Storkel, Holly | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Developing a Caregiver-administered Word Learning Treatment for Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) | $524,288 |
| Berrie, Cindy | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Elucidating Fundamental Factors Driving Self-assembly with Guided Interactions in Multicomponent Enzyme Systems using Model Nanostructured Platforms | $508,510 |
| Thompson, Ward | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Direct Calculation of Activation Energies and Entropies for Chemical Dynamics | $464,950 |
| Huerter, Aaron | International Programs | Institute for International Education | 2021 Eight-Week Humbert H. Humphery Fellowship Pre-Academic Training Program | $425,537 |
| Graham, Maryemma | English | National Endowment for the Humanities | Black Book Interactive Project III | $316,177 |
| Swinburne Romine, Russell | Achievement & Assessment Institute / ATLAS | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Item Development for New Forms of Alternate ACCESS for ELLs (Alt ACCESS Advancing ALTELLA: Alternate Assessment Redesign | $309,213 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute / Center for Public Partnerships & Research | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Kansas Maternal and Child Health Services Integration: DAISEY Design & Implementation | $303,630 |
| Brunsell, Nathaniel | Geography & Atmospheric Sciences | University of Minnesota | Developing and Deploying a Perennial Grain Crop Enterprise to Improve Environmental Quality and Rural Prosperity | $301,640 |
| Zhang, Jiakun | Political Science / Institute for Policy & Social Research | University of California - San Diego | Complex Linkages, Ambivalent Ties: Global Security and Economic Interdependence in the 21st Century | $200,000 |
| Cizek, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute / Center for Public Partnerships & Research | Kansas Children's Cabinet and Trust Fund | Community-Based Grants for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (CBCAP) | $199,162 |
| Garstka, Teri | Achievement & Assessment Institute / Center for Public Partnerships & Research | Kansas Children's Cabinet and Trust Fund | DAISEY Training and Technical Assistance | $184,078 |
| Hoque, Tamzidul | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: SaTC: EDU: Hardware Security Education for All through Seamless Extension of Existing Curriculum | $163,000 |
| Peterson, Dana | Kansas Biological Survey | Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks & Tourism | Geographic Information System (GIS) & Remote Sensing Support Services | $158,058 |
| Gardner, Sara | Achievement & Assessment Institute / Center for Public Partnerships & Research | Kansas Department of Education | Sunflower Summer Program | $119,583 |
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute / KU Center on Developmental Disabilities | University of Connecticut | Exploring Relationships between College and Career Readiness, Self-Determination, and Transition Planning among Adolescents with Disabilities | $100,000 |
| Kondyli, Alexandra | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | University of Florida | Operational Performance and Safety Effects of Arterial Weaving Sections | $100,000 |
| Roundy, Joshua | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Wichita State University | Appendix C: SMD Earth Sciences Division: Assimilation of Satellite Data for Predicting Cyanohabs in Kansas | $99,711 |
| Rowe, Neil | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | KDHE Universal Home Visiting Review | $88,487 |
| Paden, John | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets | Amherst College | Multipass and Tomography Enabled Data Products for Subsurface Characterization and Ice Sheet Model Refinement | $67,954 |
| Rogan, Christopher | Physics & Astronomy | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory | High Luminosity (HL) LHC CMS Detector Upgrade Projects MIP TIming Detector | $62,000 |
| Mendenhall, Amy | Social Welfare | Saint Francis Community Services | Saint Francis Ministries IMPACT Framework: Impact Measurement for Program, Agency, and Clint Transformation | $61,285 |
| Medina, Mario | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Sumner County Government | Field Testing & Validation: Thermal Energy Storage in Public and Commercial Buildings in Sumner County, Kansas for Energy Savings, Demand reduction and Flexibility | $60,287 |
| Shogren, Karrie | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Supporting People with Disabilities with Vaccine Access during COVID-19 in Kansas | $59,701 |
| Dhar, Prajnaparamita | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Bristol-Myers Squibb | Surfactant Performance in Protein Formulations under Interfacial Stress | $54,967 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute / ATLAS | Idaho State Department of Education | Instructional Supports Project | $52,840 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information and Telecommunication Technology Center | Sandia National Laboratories | Waveform Diversity and Signal Processing Capabilities for Radar and Multi-function Operation in Spectrally Congested, Contested, and Constrained Environments | $50,000 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Model and Mode Agnostic AI Controller for VTOL Aircraft | $74,999 |
| Zimmerman, Kathleen | Special Education / Life Span Institute | Center for Applied Science Technology | Project COaching On Learning (COOL) for UDL Implementation | $72,373 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | IERUS Technologies Inc. | Quasi-orthogonal Doppler Waveform Apps | $70,000 |
| Hansen, Amy | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | University of Minnesota | Robust Incentive Design for Sustainable Agricultural Systems | $63,681 |
| Rogers, David | Kansas Biological Survey | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Medical Entomology Subject Matter Expert | $57,455 |
| Schultz, Jerry | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Sexual Violence Primary Prevention Community-based Evaluation | $55,000 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Summer Scholars 2021-2022 | $48,480 |
| Kurth, Noelle | Life Span Institute | University of Minnesota | Research Training Center on HCBS Outcome Measurement (RTC/OM) | $47,919 |
| Picking, Wendy | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Inventprise LLC | Shigella Conjugate Immunization Study | $46,807 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Infinity Energy Resources Inc. | Screening and Investigation of Different EOR Methods for Future Development of Mature Oil Fields: The O/A Case Study | $41,537 |
| Li, Xianglin | Mechanical Engineering | Wichita State University | Design and Development of Flexible Self-powered Energy Conversion and Storage Devices | $40,000 |
| Jackson, Yolanda | Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Assessment of Traumatic Experiences Among Young Children: Examining Measurement Factors that Influence Parent Report and Predictability | $38,726 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Genetic Examination of Variation in Microbial Pathogen Susceptibility in Caenorhabditis elegans | $37,875 |
| Azuma, Yoshiaki | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Role of Chromosomal Protein Remodeling Function of PICH in Chromosome Segregation | $37,875 |
| DeKosky, Brandon | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Bridging Award: Molecular Identification and Precise Therapeutic Targeting of Anti-insulin B Cells in Type I Diabetes | $37,875 |
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Postdoctoral Award: Linking Genomic, Physiological, and Behavioral Responses to Copper Stress | $37,875 |
| Bennett, Caroline | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Federal Highway Administration | Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program Grants for Research Fellowship for Research Project Assignment on Steel Bridge Bearing Stiffener Detail to Avoid Constraint-Induced Fractures | $35,500 |
| Garstka, Teri | Achievement & Assessment Institute / Center for Public Partnerships & Research | Kansas Department for Children & Families | Kansas Early Head Start Data Reporting System (DAISEY) FY 2022 | $34,202 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | A Benefit-Cost Analysis Proposal: Team for Infants Exposed to Substance Abuse (TIES) Program | $33,000 |
| Bennett, Caroline | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Fatigue Characterization of Galvanized Welded Connections | $32,042 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | KINBRE Star Trainees 2021-2022 | $31,815 |
| Rankey, Eugene | Geology | KICC-KS Interdisc Carbonates Consortium | Controls on Facies Bodies of Isolated Carbonate Platforms | $28,542 |
| Sathyamoorthi, Shyam | Medicinal Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Inez Jay Fund | Development of New Antibacterial Agents: A Synthesis of the Antibiotic Enacyloxin IIa for the Generation of Therapeutic Analogues | $25,000 |
| Seo, Hyunjin | Journalism | National Endowment for the Arts | Returning: Community-based Art Experience Involving Women in Reentry and the Public | $25,000 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | K-INBRE Institutional Funds | Evolving Mutualism: Rescue of a Host Embryonic Development Defect by a Parasite | $25,000 |
| Koch, Lisa | Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Kansas Innovation Summit | $22,445 |
| Bergman, Patricia | Office of Research | KU Medical Center Research Institute | The Sustainable Heartland Accelerator Regional Partnership (SHARP) Hub - 2020-2021 | $20,654 |
| Shogren, Karrie | Special Education / Life Span Institute | Association of University Centers on Disabilities | UT2 Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical Health (AIR-P) | $20,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fry, Andrew | Health, Sport & Exercise Sciences / Achievement & Assessment Institute | KU Endowment Association | Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Kansas | $5,000,000 |
| Counts, Jacqueline | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet & Trust Fund | HHS/ACF Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five | $2,704,001 |
| Boyd, Brian | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Parent-implemented Treatment for Repetitive Behaviors in Children with ASD: Using a Novel Telehealth Approach to Increase Service Access | $2,477,272 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | National Science Foundation | CAREER: The Genetic Mechanisms of Sex-ratio Meiotic Drive and Resistance | $1,050,000 |
| Besson, David | Physics & Astronomy | University of Chicago | The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO): A Long-duration Balloon-borne Instrument for Particle Astrophysics at the Highest Energies | $1,008,198 |
| Wagner, Margaret | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Science Foundation | RESEARCH-PGR: Genetics and Mechanisms of Microbe-dependent Heterosis | $899,970 |
| Bever, James | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | CSBR: Ownership Transfer: Living Stocks: International Culture Collection of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (INVAM) | $460,935 |
| Oakley, Berl | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Resistance-gene-guided Genome Mining for Novel Antifungal Compounds | $437,201 |
| Shontz, Suzanne | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Triad National Security LLC | Nutrient Cycling and Biogeochemical Processes in Aquatic Moist-soil Unit Habitats at the Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge | $400,000 |
| Timmons, Lisa | Molecular Biosciences | National Science Foundation | REU SITE: The Stressed Life of Cells | $384,630 |
| Gillam, Rebecca | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Horizons Mental Health Center | CCBHC Expansion Grants | $309,810 |
| Noonan, Patricia | Life Span Institute | Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education | Missouri Post-secondary Success Project/ Social-emotional Learning for All | $298,422 |
| Bartlow, Noel | Geology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Deployment of Seafloor Optical Fiber Strainmeters for the Detection of Slow Slip Events | $298,389 |
| Nualart, David | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Stochastic Calculus of Variations and Limit Theorems | $272,401 |
| Volkin, David | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | In Vitro and in Vivo Assessments of Alum-CpG Formulations | $250,001 |
| Billings, Sharon | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey | U.S. Department of Agriculture | SitS: Collaborative Research: Soils are Signaling Shifts in Aggregate Life-cycles: What Does this Mean for Water, Carbon and Climate Feedbacks in the Anthropocene? | $236,245 |
| Barton, Jared | Social Welfare | Missouri Children's Trust Fund | Missouri's Children's Trust Fund's Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program Evaluation | $230,954 |
| Thompson, William | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Improving Software and Methods for Estimating Diagnostic Classification Models and Evaluating Model Fit | $224,996 |
| Krause, Rachel | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Dealing with Disruption: Investigating the Micro-level Underpinnings of City Response to the Climate Crisis | $203,884 |
| Collins, William | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | American Institute of Steel Construction | Innovative Steel Deck System for Highway Bridge Applications | $200,000 |
| Hasiuk, Franciszek | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Department of Energy | H-2-SALT: Storing Fossil Energy as Hydrogen in Salt Caverns | $200,000 |
| Mendenhall, Amy | Social Welfare | Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services | Kansas SED Waiver Assessment & Evaluation Services | $193,972 |
| Barton, Jared | Social Welfare | Iowa Department of Human Services | Iowa ROM 2021 – 2026 | $178,374.50 |
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Bioinformatics Core Facility 2021-2022 | $159,075 |
| Bigelow, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Kansas MIECHV Program | $157,000 |
| Rudnick, Gregory | Physics & Astronomy | NASA | Probing Quenching in the Cosmic Web using Spatially-resolved Star Formation Maps from WISE and GALEX | $120,581 |
| Fleming, Kandace | Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Translating Research into School-based Practice via Small-group, Language-focused Comprehension Intervention | $109,519.35 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | KU Medical Center Research Institute | The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine | $103,413.90 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | Project AWARE-SEA | $99,760 |
| McKenna, Thomas | Kansas Biological Survey | Perennial Agriculture Project LLC | Interaction of the Perennial Grain Kernza and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: Effects of Selection Pressure and Impacts on Soil Health | $95,050 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Agriculture | Kansas Base Flood Elevation Portal | $88,000 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | KU Medical Center Research Institute | The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine | $78,083 |
| Keshmiri, Shawn | Aerospace Engineering / Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets | DARcorporation | Model and Mode Agnostic AI Controller for VTOL Aircraft | $74,999 |
| Zimmerman, Kathleen | Special Education / Life Span Institute | Center for Applied Science Technology | Project COaching On Learning (COOL) for UDL Implementation | $72,373 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | IERUS Technologies Inc. | Quasi-orthogonal Doppler Waveform Apps | $70,000 |
| Hansen, Amy | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | University of Minnesota | Robust Incentive Design for Sustainable Agricultural Systems | $63,681 |
| Rogers, David | Kansas Biological Survey | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Medical Entomology Subject Matter Expert | $57,455 |
| Schultz, Jerry | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Sexual Violence Primary Prevention Community-based Evaluation | $55,000 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Undergraduate Research Office | $53,025 |
| Fehr, Anthony | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Investigating Approved Therapeutics for their Ability to Inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 ADPribosylhydrolase | $50,000 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Chromis Fiberoptics | Membrane Oxygen Permeance Experiments | $47,244 |
| Brockman, Jennifer | Sexual Assault Prevention & Education Center | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Evaluation of Programs at KU Sexual Assault Prevention & Education Center | $42,163 |
| Murray, Michael | Physics & Astronomy | Brookhaven National Laboratory | High-resolution Zero Degree Calorimetry | $38,600 |
| Picking, Wendy | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Hafion LLC | Production of a Nanoparticle Vaccine to Aid in Smoking Cessation | $36,156 |
| Farrell, Mark | Medicinal Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Potentiating the Activity of Anti-CD20 Antibodies | $35,000 |
| Dixon, Dan | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Oregon Health & Science University | Targeting HuR to Improve a Synthetic Lethal Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer | $34,771 |
| Schulmeister, Marcia | Geology | Emporia State University | Nutrient Cycling and Biogeochemical Processes in Aquatic Moist-soil Unit Habitats at the Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge | $29,716 |
| Siahaan, Teruna | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center | Synthesis and Analysis of CCN5 PEGylated Proteins | $26,750 |
| Boskovic, Zarko | Medicinal Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Benzoylation of Histones as a Novel Therapeutic Approach for the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma | $25,000 |
| DeKosky, Brandon | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Improved T Cell Receptor Screening for Rapid Personalized Cancer Treatments | $25,000 |
| Wang, Zhi | Aerospace Engineering | GE Global Research | Enhancement of Large Eddy Simulation Tool | $25,000 |
| Baer, Sara | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey | Kansas State University | LTER: Manipulating Drivers to Assess Grassland Resilience | $24,943 |
| Shogren, Karrie | Special Education / Life Span Institute | Association of University Centers on Disabilities | UT2 Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical Health (AIR-P) | $20,000 |
| Hardy, Saralyn | Spencer Museum of Art | National Endowment for the Arts | To Support Research and Planning for the Exhibition Bold Women: Changing the World and Art | $20,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Koebley, Sarah | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Special Educator Technology-based Training of Trainers (SETTT) for Success | $2,499,986 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | New Mexico Public Education Department | New Mexico DLM: 2020-2021 Operational/Testing (ELA,Math, Sci) + Science Development + Additional Services | $957,167 |
| Wendel-Hummell, Carrie | Social Welfare | Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality | Care and Safety Practices during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Home-Based Long term Services and Supports | $646,620 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | 2021 Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) | $600,000 |
| Washburn, Jocelyn | Life Span Institute | Las Cruces Public Schools | Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant – Las Cruces Public Schools | $579,310 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | State of Idaho | Idaho Safe Schools, Safe Students | $470,030 |
| Scott, Erik | History / Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies | U.S. Department of Education | Fostering Global Competency and Engagement in the Heartland: The University of Kansas Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies | $426,484 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Maryland State Department of Education | Innovations in Science Map, Assessment, and Report Technologies (I-SMART) | $317,715 |
| Kondyli, Alexandra | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | U.S. Department of Transportation | Inclusive Autonomous Vehicle Design for People with Cognitive Disabilities | $300,000 |
| Yi, Richard | Psychology / Life Span Institute | Michigan State University | Minding a Mid-America Gap: NIDA/NIAAA Epidemiology Research Training for Clinical Researchers and Clinicians in Currently Under-Served Areas | $234,808 |
| Jimenez, Pegah Naemi | Achievement & Assessment Institute / Office of Research | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting FY 19 Evaluation | $194,412 |
| Forrest, Marcus | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Mitochondria Targeting for Alzheimer's Disease | $189,375 |
| Mills, Elisabeth | Physics & Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Apples to Apples: Comparing the Cores of Nearby Galaxies | $175,654 |
| Braaten, David | Geography & Atmospheric Science / Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets | University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa | Center for Remote Sensing of Snow and Soil Moisture Measurement | $174,995 |
| Iqbal, Asif | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Agriculture | Kansas Online Water Use Report – FY2019-2022 | $164,217 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Idaho State Department of Education | Idaho Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education (ID-AWARE) | $154,135 |
| Kokobobo, Ani | Slavic Languages & Literatures / Hall Center for the Humanities | The U.S. Russia Foundation | A Comprehensive Plan for Creating a Russian Studies Pipeline in Kansas High Schools | $120,008 |
| Ortiz, Kelsey | Life Span Institute | State of Washington Office of Superintendent | Identifying Evidence-Based Practices and Developing Technical Assistance and Professional Development Materials on Serving Students with Disabilities with Online Learning | $120,000 |
| Leonard, Kevin | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Kansas Board of Regents | The Internet of Catalysis: Harnessing the Data Science for Catalyst Design | $115,286 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Streambank Evaluation of the Cottonwood and Neosho Rivers above John Redmond Reservoir | $100,000 |
| Allgeier, Alan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Bond Biosciences Inc. | Development of Non-absorbable Therapeutic Agents | $100,000 |
| Berkland, Cory | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Fistula Fix: Fistula Closure Device | $100,000 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department Of Education | OK Aware East | $99,760 |
| Meng, Jingyao | Kansas Geological Survey | Carbon Capture America | Geologic Site Screening and Data Collection for a Potential CCUS Project in Russell County, KS for Carbon America | $86,354 |
| Barton, Jared | Achievement & Assessment Institute / Social Welfare | Connecticut Department of Children & Families | Connecticut ROM FY 2021 | $84,775 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Origin Materials | Oxidation of Distributed Furanics from Renewable Resources – Phase 2 | $82,500 |
| Graham, Maryemma | English | Indiana University | Realizing Scholar-Curated Worksets for Analysis, Reuse & Discovery | $78,432 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Providing Crash Data Analysis Services for the Kansas Department of Transportation 2021-2023 | $74,999 |
| Murray, Michael | Physics & Astronomy | Northern Illinois University | 5-D dual-readout calorimetry for the Next Generation of HEP Experiments | $73,661 |
| Hale, Richard | Aerospace Engineering | Wichita State University | National Space Grant Consortium College and Fellowship – Opportunities in NASA STEAM FY 2020 | $73,091 |
| Kirkpatrick, Allison | Physics & Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Obscured CANDELS: Disentangling Obscuration around Supermassive Black Holes in the Distant Universe | $68,917 |
| Allgeier, Alan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Danisco USA Inc. | Development of Process for Derivatization of Engineered Polysaccharides through Enzymatic Polymerization with Fatty Acids to the Corresponding Engineered Polysaccharide Esters | $64,632 |
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Preproposal for Study of Regional Arbuckle Properties in South Central Kansas Now and Planning for the Future | $61,700 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Kansas Real-Time Flood Mapping Tool Development | $61,000 |
| Fuller, Randall | English / Hall Center for the Humanities | National Endowment for the Humanities | Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism | $60,000 |
| Hedeman, Anne | History of Art / Hall Center for the Humanities | National Endowment for the Humanities | Gothic Manuscripts, 1320-1390 (FEL-273019) | $60,000 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Illinois State Board of Education | Integrated Referral and Intake System (IRIS) | $53,395 |
| Burkhardt, Crystal | Pharmacy Practice | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Remote Monitoring and Virtual Collaborative Care for Hypertension Control to Prevent Cognitive Decline | $53,101 |
| Keshmiri, Shawn | Aerospace Engineering / Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets | Kansas State University | GP-IN: SOARING: Sharing Opportunities, Approaches, and Resources in New Geo-teaching | $50,021 |
| Kondyli, Alexandra | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | SCC-CIVIC-PG Track A: Connecting Underrepresented Youths with Employment Opportunities | $50,000 |
| Girard, Jeffrey | Psychology / Life Span Institute | Carnegie Mellon University | Dyadic Behavior Informatics for Psychotherapy Process and Outcome | $47,075 |
| Kondyli, Alexandra | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | City of Topeka | Design and Evaluation of Temporary Signs at Uncontrolled Intersections | $41,997 |
| Azuma, Yoshiaki | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Targeting Mitotic Function of the PICH (Polo-like Kinase Interacting Checkpoint Helicase) for Novel Therapeutics of TNBC | $35,000 |
| Hanson, Paul | Chemistry | Aspira Chemical | Synthesis of Human Pin1 Inhibitors | $35,000 |
| Xu, Liang | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Drug the Undruggable Musashi Oncoprotein by Fragment-based Drug Discovery | $35,000 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey | Terrametrics Agriculture Inc. | U.S. County Level Corn & Soybean Yield Modeling and Brazil & Argentina Soybean Yield Model Development & Implementation | $34,000 |
| Stiles, James | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Georgia Institute of Technology | Software-Defined Rada Algorithm Development | $33,905 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics & Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Exploring the Demographics of Exo-Neptunes: Atmospheric Characterization of a Cool Sub-Neptune from TESS | $31,995 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Early Impact Virginia | Digital Badging Enhancement | $26,606 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | United-We | The Status of Women in Kansas, Missouri and the Kansas City Area | $25,000 |
| Siahaan, Teruna | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Phrma Foundation | Non-Invasive Brain Delivery, Clearance, and Efficacy of Therapeutic Antibodies in Mice | $25,000 |
| McCoy, Kelly | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | U.S. Department of Homeland Security | State Fire Training Systems Grant - 2020 | $20,000 |
| Koch, Lisa | Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Create Webinar Series Geared Toward Local Emerging Topics and Innovations | $19,698 |
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | Oregon State University | Sampling Rock and Water to Improve Correlations between Above Ground and Below Ground Processes in the Konza Prairie Near Manhattan, KS | $18,262 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey | City of Lawrence | High Frequency Water Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen Monitoring in Clinton Lake, Kansas | $17,194 |
| Chen, Yi Chun | Journalism | KU Medical Center Research Institute | RADx-UP: Improving the Response of Local Urban and Rural Communities to Disparities in COVID-19 Testing | $16,730 |